# Status readout / notification of current activities via Klipper (Mainsail)

**URL:** https://klipper.discourse.group/t/status-readout-notification-of-current-activities-via-klipper-mainsail/19526
**Category:** Mainsail
**Created:** [October 21, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://klipper.discourse.group/t/status-readout-notification-of-current-activities-via-klipper-mainsail/19526 "2024-10-21T08:06:13Z")
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### Author: ![remarkable\_sir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@remarkable\_sir](https://klipper.discourse.group/u/remarkable_sir)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://klipper.discourse.group/t/status-readout-notification-of-current-activities-via-klipper-mainsail/19526/1 "2024-10-21T08:06:13Z")

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Is there any solution for displaying of status information available?

Often I wonder what the printer is doing and the console doesn’t provide any information.

i.e. I want to know that the printer is currently ramping up the bed temperature before doing anything else.  
Or if some random macro initiated a wait period to settle temperature I would like to read it somewhere on a display or within the console window that the machine is doing nothing because the macro told it so.

This is the example:  
`G4 P60000 ; let temps settle for 1 min`

Also certain information is shown in the Mainsail Status/Job queqe window sometimes.  
Something like: “chamber heating canceled”  
Here the chamber fan turned off because temp was reached. Somehow it triggered this information display but I didn’t figure out why and how yet.

I think with marlin there was a “Display” command you could have added after every line of gcode.

Maybe somebody has a good idea or some hint where this topic was handled appropriately.

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### Author: ![remarkable\_sir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@remarkable\_sir](https://klipper.discourse.group/u/remarkable_sir)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://klipper.discourse.group/t/status-readout-notification-of-current-activities-via-klipper-mainsail/19526/2 "2024-10-21T13:52:48Z")

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This information window here _red circle_ is what I mean!

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/klipper/original/2X/0/083f66e32459c6100fd72ee092383db016abe908.png)

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### Author: ![LifeOfBrian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/klipper.discourse.group/lifeofbrian/32/2380_2.png) [@LifeOfBrian](https://klipper.discourse.group/u/LifeOfBrian)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 1:59pm UTC](https://klipper.discourse.group/t/status-readout-notification-of-current-activities-via-klipper-mainsail/19526/3 "2024-10-21T13:59:28Z")

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You could check this:  
[https://www.klipper3d.org/G-Codes.html#respond](https://www.klipper3d.org/G-Codes.html#respond)

Otherwise with `M118` you can maybe be suitable already.

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### Author: ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/klipper/original/1X/64419bf2aac6639e6ef5cef200dcd456b0a01ac3.png) [@system](https://klipper.discourse.group/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://klipper.discourse.group/t/status-readout-notification-of-current-activities-via-klipper-mainsail/19526/4 "2024-12-20T14:00:00Z")

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