Finished implementing a printer module in the client to facilitate message printing! It uses Redis to store the messages as well, and the client polls every 30 seconds to pop the values and print them out.

I also made some major Redis command optimizations by using Lua execution for the printer module and a Hash structure for the status. I was able to drastically minimize the amount of commands necessary to sync the status and fetch new printer messages, which is definitely a huge plus considering there’s a monthly command limit on the free plan.

Time to build a messages input box on the website!