octo4a VS AccA

If you have a spare old(ish) Android phone you can look into Octo4A. Just be sure to connect the phone via power blocked USB cable to avoid your phone charing the printer... And you need a phone you can charge and use USB host at the same time. Some allow this via split cables (Type-c dongles) or if your phone has wireless charging.

As the video mentions https://github.com/feelfreelinux/octo4a :D I did need to get an adapter splitter and I only got it to work on a phone with USBC port, so nothing super old.

If you have a Android phone (or tablet), you can use the octo4a app.

At the bottom of the first post, this is what they recommend for Octo4A

I am honest, it is a bit more complicated and failure prone, but absolutly doable. octo4a

I run Octoprint on my laptop. Old Android phone is also an option.

I really need help with this one. I use an android tablet with Octo4a (https://github.com/feelfreelinux/octo4a) and some plugins work fine but f.e. octolapse not and I get this report.

For whoever needs to know what I mean by Octo4A please visit the developers GitHub: https://github.com/feelfreelinux/octo4a

install acc and optionally the app for it.

I can highly recommend ACC (and the ACCA app [1] for setup). It lets me limit my phone to 90% charge with the ability to ignore the limit temporarily when I need to. That's very useful for fixing the battery calibration, which can go bad when using ACC.

It has reduced my battery wear by 40-50% according to Accubattery's capacity graph.

[1] https://github.com/MatteCarra/AccA

Try AccA.

I'm a huge fan of https://github.com/MatteCarra/AccA for controlling battery charging.

although I'd probably stick to acc unofficial app AccA unless there is a newer one

Maybe look at this https://github.com/MatteCarra/AccA

Acca allows me to control charging.