AMS Filament Colour Checking tool

Bambu Filament and Accesories
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Like a lot of people I order my filament, it arrives gets taken out of the box, put on a spool and the box is thrown away, along with the colour hex code and name.

Only realised today that when you are running low on a filament and you have similar colours available to purchase, plus are colour blind its not the easiest to find the exact colour you need to re-stock.

Clicking on the “eye” symbol under the Device tab in Bambu Studio just gives you a visual rep of the colour. Doing the same on Bambu Handy App seems to give you better results but doesn’t always give you the exact colour i.e. “Charcoal” PLA Matte shows as Black.

So figured I would cobble together a simple little HTML/JavaScript app to show me the filament type and colour that’s currently loaded. I’m not going to claim to have come up with this idea, that thanks goes to hong823 who posted on the BambuLab subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1evdf33/determine_filament_color/[Determine Filament Color? : r/BambuLab]

Inspired to take it further and show the colour name/type I came up with this

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Open the webpage, click browse, search for and find the latest debug{todays date}.log.0 in C:\Users{username}\AppData\Roaming\BambuStudio\log and it should display what you have loaded.

Also popped an RGB Converter at the bottom for when you’re using Ext spool and need to put in the exact RGB value based off the hex code.

I may look at autoloading the .log.0 file to save time. If anyone’s interested I can share it from my github repo.

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I would be very interested in this

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Or use a Filament Inventory app like SpoolStock. You just scan the barcode on the box, add the filament and print a QR code and stick it on the Spool.

Just scan the QR code with the app and you know exactly what color it is.

You can also track the amount of filament left on the Spool.

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Cheers, didn’t even know a filament inventory app like this existed. Makes sense though.

Not sure what the limits are for the free version , hopefully high enough as I don’t go through enough filament with 2 printers to warrant paying. Will definitely look at using moving forward as I purchase new filament, presuming I can scan the barcode on the box, too lazy now though to manually enter them all in.

Will still use my tool I think for those times I just need to know what colour is loaded in the AMS as there are a few “greys” and “whites” that I just can’t tell the difference from BLs colour swatch.

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