Core ideas behind Kinkajou Bridge.

Project vs product

• Project Kinkajou — the overall project and this documentation site
• Kinkajou Bridge — the printer hub application

Integrations vs instances

• An integration is a vendor/protocol plugin (for example Bambu Lab or Snapmaker U1).
• A printer instance is one configured device. You can run many instances across different vendors.

Capabilities

Plugins may optionally expose:

• Job thumbnail / cover image
• Live camera stream URL and snapshot URL (URL only; no re-encoding)

Clients

Bridge is API-first. Streamer.bot is a first-class built-in adapter; other tools use the same local HTTP and WebSocket API.