When you submit an object to be printed (press “PRINT” on the build plate screen), the Polar Cloud display will automatically go to the dashboard screen for your selected printer, showing what the printer is currently doing – including video or snapshot images, if your printer is equipped with a (supported) camera. Polar3D printers, DREMEL printers, and newer FlashForge printers are camera-equipped, or you may install a camera on an OctoPrint controlled printer.
If you are connected to the same local network to which the (camera-equipped) printer is connected, the printer dashboard for a printer will show live video of what the printer is currently doing; the presence of a small, red camera icon within the upper right of the printer image indicates use of the same local network and hence live video display.
If you are connected to the Polar Cloud through a different network (than that through which the printer is connected to the Polar Cloud), then the printer dashboard will instead display frequently updated (updated about every five seconds) still snapshots of what the printer is currently doing.
If you are the owner or a manager of the printer, or a member of a group configured with “Control Printers” management of the printer, you will see on the printer dashboard a “START” button; press that button to begin the print of the job at the head of the printer’s job queue. Once your job has begun printing, a “STOP” button will appear; you may press that button if you wish to stop (abort) the print job.
Note that a final snapshot of the printed object is also available later via your account “HISTORY” of print jobs; see Section 3.3.3. (And with printers that support keeping a time-lapse video, such as Polar3D printers and OctoPrint controlled printers, a time-lapse video is also available there.) And if you are a printer manager, the photo (and time-lapse video, if the printer generated one) are also available via the printer “HISTORY” of print jobs; see Section 9.2.5.
IFTTT applets are available to automatically post such TIME LAPSE videos or SNAPSHOT photos from completed print jobs to Facebook.