Hello, Fediverse!
Sharing my new blog post: my wife wanted to print, and somehow that became a 3-day trip through Android printer discovery, mDNS/DNS-SD, IPPS, CUPS, Avahi, OpenWrt, VLANs, and ath10k firmware.
It was honestly a lot of fun.
https://tech-takumi.github.io/posts/my-wife-wanted-to-print/
So, my wife wanted to print...
Before this, the only reliable way to print at home was for me to upload PDFs over SFTP to my CUPS server and print them from there. This worked great, assuming you were me. My wife, quite reasonably, wanted to print like a normal person. From her device, over Wi-Fi. Without opening a ticket with the household infrastructure department. And, also quite reasonably, she has observed before that I make everything complex.







