These are good news!
And how can we deduce if the printer can be used directly with the phone or if it needs a wifi network in between?
If you are asking whether the printer can act as an access point; it either just plain says that - but primarily that is what WiFi-Direct signifies.
Yes, that is it. And if Sailprint can manage them with Wifi-direct or are there other specs to verify?
Actually my Epson printer works pretty well with sailprint
If the printer acts as Access Point I suppose SailPrint could work and print. Does printer provide DHCP server or you have to set manual IP? If sailfish detects any printer it will appear in the list-first screen. I have to add for sailprint that I was able to print only when I was connected to the same Access Point the Canon printer was connected too. If I was trying from different access point it didnât work. Never checked to find whyâŚ
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Ok, so I received my Selphy CP1500 and can report that itâs success with ipp available on the local network. Havenât tried direct print yet. Yeah! The quality of prints is quiet good!
Sadly, there are network issues with the volla22/GS5/rephone. But it works fine with the GS290/volla and the experia 10iii. shows up as ipps://xxx/ipp/print
Thanks @attah!
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SeaPrint, like that other printing system, only fishier.
As for managing; that is an unspecific term.
It can print to them same as over a network provided by some other access point, yes.
Still subject aforementioned compatibility concerns.
Not all Epsons - but some.
Oops, yes SeaPrint, sorry 
Like my hopeless ET-2710 which I canât use (but donât really need) from Sailfish.
In contrary of a Selphy, which is really cool on the road.
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Oh, Iâm totally sorry. Other difference to that other one is that yours just works. Amazing!
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Ok, @attah, here some screen of the selphy cp1500, from the volla/GS290 phone.
This is with the selphy on the local network, not directly. Iâll try to get to that after debugging networking on my DD.
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Hi @poetaster, have your experimentations brought some new elements about printing on the road, I mean with no wifi network between the phone and the printer?
Havenât tried that yet. The printer tosses a dhcpd up, that I know, but I havenât tried to connect yet. On the list.
Hmmm. Ok, a bit odd. I can connect the phone to the printer network but seaprint does not find the printer. Not even by supplying the ip / url. Look like I need to debug.
EDIT: Worked immediately with the Xperia 10III ⌠itâs network weirdness on the GS5/Volla22 ⌠or rephone.
So, connecting directly to the printer just works.
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Oh, great news! Will be harder to resist now! 
Just a follow up. Bascially disabling the firewall (ipv4) on the Vollalikes made seaprint connectivity work, too 
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Wouldnât allowing UDP on port 5353 be enough?
Certainly There are other issues on the volla ports. I hadnât gone through all the ports but the firewall was an issue for numerous services (NO sdk QML debugging, a number of others).
Bumping this topic to mention that I noticed Lidl was selling rebranded versions of these miniature Bluetooth (BLE) thermal printers, aka âpocket printersâ, and because we now have Bluetooth support in Android apps, I wanted to see if it worked.
The good news: it works!
The bad news: only once!
Basically, how I got it working was to:
- make the printer print its QR code by double-pressing its power button, then
- opening the Pocket Printer application (in AppSupport),
- check for Bluetooth devices in the (Sailfish) Settings,
- wait for the device âPocket Printerâ with a camera icon to show up and
- tell it to pair with AppSupport, then
- immediately go back to the Pocket Printer application,
- scan the QR code and the printer will immediately appear.
- You can then print as much as you want, but as soon as you close the application, turn off Bluetooth or turn off the printer, the connection is âpermanentlyâ lost. No matter how much you try, the device refuses to be found.
The only way to get it working again was to: - unpair the device (which sometimes takes several tries), and then go through steps 2-7 again.
If it worked consistently, I could imagine using this quite often. Hopefully someone can reverse engineer these printers and make a native application for them, or maybe whateverâs causing it to work only once per pairing will be solved in a software update.
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Someone mentioned a similar quirk in the Jolla Phone : First Experiences Pros and Cons topic regarding Bluetooth pairing. So this may not be an issue with the printer but rather a Bluetooth issue within Sailfish OS or possibly just the Jolla Phone. Would be interesting to see if this issue resolves itself once Jolla gets around to fixing the BT issue mentioned.
Could be related, although in my case itâs on the Android AppSupport side, on an Xperia 10 II, and resetting Bluetooth doesnât help.
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