I spent a short time installing the free camera and LED on 8 of my P1P printers last night and when I turn my printers off tonight they will all be removed. I regret the time spent and the filament wasted printing the LED box.
Not even considering how bad the cameras are, I have had LAN connection issues several times when trying to connect to the cameras. You cannot rely on them and makes them pointless as you need to be standing in front of the printers to get the access code to reconnect.
The LED light will go on automatically when the print starts. There is no way to stop that from happening and when you have your printers in a well lit room all you are doing is wasting electricity and the life of those LED lights. They also do not turn off when the printer stops printing.
By all means get the free parts if you got the printers before they came by default and if you buy a printer new now and have them come free. But dont waste your time installing them right now.
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I believe there is a g-code command turning the lights on and off. Check startup gcode in bambu studio, maybe you can comment a line in there to prevent turning the lights on.
It should be also possible to control lights through MQTT.
On X1C lights are quite dim, but camera seems to work fine. Did they like put on P1P camera with worse lens or smaller sensor? Unbelievable. Bambu seems to be running really low on cash, if they cheap out even on stuff like cameras.
The camera is only 720p (HD). IMO, that’s certainly good enough to take a peek and ensure all is printing okay.
I guess Bambu Lab cheaped out on the screen too? But, if they used all of the same parts as the X1C, then I guess that would defeat the purpose of having a lower cost option.
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I actually quite like the LED and the Camera it’s been good for me.
no issues with the P1p Camera, it would been nice if we could lower the resolution within Studio or the config file to lower the resolution to say 480p to speed up the FPS. a nice addon
Im not saying I am unhappy with the actual products. The LED is a LED and hard to go wrong with that.
What I am unhappy about in regards to the LED is Bambulab have programmed it to turn on when the print starts with giving the user no control over whether that happens or not. During the day you don’t need an LED light in a well lit room. It is a waste of electricity and shortens the life span of the product itself. And then the other problem with it is not turning off by itself when the print has stopped.
The camera is garbage but again that isnt my gripe. It does the basic job of checking to see if your print is okay or not, and for me that is 100% okay. But the LAN connection issues are terrible, making it an unreliable system. I linked up all 8 printers correctly last night. This morning after turning on 5 of those printers, I had to reconnect to 1 using a new access code and since those 5 printers have been running 2 have lost connection between the camera and bambu studio. It means that the cameras cannot be relied upon if you were wanting to monitor your prints remotely.
EDIT: Just turned on my other 3 printers which havent been running since I added the cameras/LED strip last night. All 3 access codes have changed so LAN connection failed. So out of my 8 printers, 5 need to be reconnected right now.
The access code issues are annoying. But if you can get them added without asking for a new code, you’ll be good to go. The camera and feed are crappy but they are definitely usable so I wouldn’t strip them out. I imagine it’s just Bambu Lab capping the bandwidth through their servers at a frame every 2 seconds, and that is my only real complaint.
By LAN connection I’m assuming you mean the cloud sending service. That has actually been very reliable for me. I downloaded the beta version of Studio and that one had issues, but the stable version has been rock solid.
I have no problem at all connecting to the camera. What is your symptom?
If it is crashing Bambu Studio I might have a fix for you.
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My LED turns on when I turn it on. It is not turned on by the Machine start G code.