I remember people warning this would happen years ago on various online threads, and getting ridiculed for it.
Yeah, print out that fuckin’ telephone because we called it. Sometimes it sucks to be right.
I’m happy I built a Voron Trident a few years ago instead of going for the Bambu Lab printer. It’s more work of course, but I also know what parts are in it and how to fix it or upgrade it.
The only thing that one has to give Bambulab credit for is making 3D printing accessible to people who don’t want to or don’t have the skills to tinker with their printer.
Yeah it’d just be nice if they weren’t trying so hard to emulate all the bad parts of paper printer companies!
Yeah, I absolutely agree!
I’ve never been happier about my Prusa, despite some of what I felt were their suboptimal choices in the last few years, at least they’ve never seemed malicious.
I have not updated my x1 firmware and never will be.
I blocked mine from the internet for good measure too.
I did this, but experienced a lot of issues connecting to it afterwards. Constant disconnects and it taking several minutes after opening Orca/Studio to find it.
Any advice, as I’d like to go back to LAN Mode?
Cheers
I currently have my P1S in LAN mode and use HomeAssistant to control it, using thr ha-bambulab integration. Does everything I need
Cheers, HA integration is on the plan for the future, I just strugle with time these days with a small kid and work.
Roll back the firmware to a version that worked. You still can do that.
I wish I could.
Need the newer FW to use the drying function of the AMS2.I’m considering going back to LAN and just dealing with it though. I really prefer Orca over Studio
It would appear you are now trapped by Bambu into their product system.
May God ha’ Mercy on your Soul.
And thats exactly why i didnt buy a bambu labs printer because i knew this woukd happen. I basically know the script line by line at this point, warned everyone and now look, spending that extra 300€ was really worth it…
Bambu slicer needed windows Silverlight or something to sign in which never worked on my old laptop. The run around is save my slice, upload through a browser and use bambu handy mobile app to start the print. If they make it more unbearable I might need to go back to LAN connection.
I got my A1 mini just a month or two before this current unpleasantness, so I was taken unaware. But since I’ve never been interested in using much of the Bambu software ecosystem, switching to LAN mode a month ago has been no big deal for me because I was leaning that direction anyway. And my current firmware version, 1.04 works well so no need to up grade. Nor is Makers World all that important to me.
But there are so many users that just don’t care and will swallow what ever dreck Bambu feeds them.
I was seriously considering upgrading to a bambulabs printer before all this. Instead I screwed a second tool head to my Ender 5 and will be sticking with that printer for the forseeable future.
