How I gave my spare Panda Touch a second job on the Kobra - setup notes that actually worked

I did something similar a few months back but pointed mine at a Sovol running Klipper in the garage. The browser flashing went fine for me too, though I'd add one thing from my own run thru it: make sure the screen stays powered the whole time and don't yank the cable early. I got impatient on the first attempt and ended up redoing the whole thing, second try went clean. The zero temps at idle got me as well. Sat there staring at it thinking I'd botched the connection, then noticed they filled in properly once the printer woke up and started its own reporting. Now I just ignore that screen til I've sent it a job. Where mine earns its keep is the opposite situation to yours. I've got the Panda Touch parked on the shelf above my workbench watching the Sovol while my main machine, an Anycubic, sits in the office. Being able to glance over and see which of the four slots has the PETG and which has the support material has saved me from at least one wrong-filament print. The pause and light buttons get used more than I expected too, mostly for checking on first layers without walking over.

Only thing I'd say on your side is give a full print a go when you get a quiet evening. That's when I found out my garage unit drops off the network now and then, which the dashboard made obvious.

Mine lives on the side of the Kobra's frame held on with a cheap magnetic phone mount, best couple of quid I've spent on that setup. Being able to swing the screen round to face wherever I'm working means I actually look at it, whereas when it was taped in place I kept forgetting it was there. Also seconding the slot labels thing in practice, I write the material on masking tape on each spool box now so the colours on screen match something in my head. Has anyone else noticed the light button lag a second or two before the printer reacts, or is that just mine being slow?

Been running mine a few weeks now, mostly pointed at an older Ender with Klipper on it. Took me a minute to find where you swap which printer it's watching, but once I did I just flip between it and the other machine depending on what's running that day. One screen doing both saves me having a second display cluttering the bench. I keep mine plugged into a spare phone charger on a smart plug so it goes off with the lights at night, stopped me leaving it glowing all hours. Still not brave enough to start a job from the screen itself though, I send from the PC out of habit.

This sounds like what I've been trying to sort out for ages. I've got an older printer that barely came with a screen at all, just a little knob thing, and half the time I can't tell what it's doing from the door of the shed. I don't have any of the fancy multi-slot boxes though, just single spools. Does the screen still show anything useful for a basic setup like that, or does it just sit there mostly empty? Also not totally clear to me how it finds the printer in the first place, do they both need to be on the same home wifi?