I just got a X1E for work and i am trying to connect it to Bambu Studio. Since it’s a printer for work LAN Only Mode is required. Yet Bambu Studio doesn’t show the printer and i can’t connect.
What i did so far:
Updated the firmware with my Bambu account.
set the printer to LAN Only
connected it via a router to my pc. No other connections on the router, just so the printer gets a IP assigned via DHCP.
I can ping the Printer from my PC.
I’m no networking expert, so i need some help. Is there a way to diagnose, why can i ping, but cant see the printer in Bambu Studio?
Can I actively trigger a search for a printer in Bambu Studio?
Can i specify which network adapter Bambu Studio uses to connect to a printer?
Currently the PC is connected to my normal network via one network adapter and to the printer via another adapter.
We are having the exact same issue with out X1E at my work… has anyone else successfully set an X1E up on LAN or WLAN mode? I run a personal P1S at home in WLAN mode with no issues so this is surprising.
Are the printer and desktop on the same logical network? Bambu studio discovers the the printers via broadcast messages, which require them both to be on the same logical network. Many wireless routers will put wireless devices on a different network and DHCP scope than the physically connected devices. Since the wireless router tends to be the default gateway for both the physical and wireless connected devices, the router will route the ping traffic between the two networks and the pings will succeed. That’s just a common example of why it may not be working for you. So the first thing I would look at is that both the computer and printer are on the same network/subnet.
I don’t think that subnets have anything to do with it
They (BL) are probably using mDNS for printer discovery. I have my X1C on a different VLAN and discovery is not an issue as long as mDNS across vlans is allowed.
That’s making an assumption on your part that they are allowing mDNS traffic across VLANs. We don’t know what their network configuration looks like and if they took the additional step to allow that broadcast traffic to traverse networks or VLANs. I realize that it’s possible to allow, but it’s not typically allowed by default. So we should at least start with networking basics, which is that Bambu Studio relies upon broadcast traffic to identify printers on the network and that typical networks would require that they both be on the same network to communicate.
I’m looking back at his setup and now I’m thinking the issue is that Bambu Studio is probably only using the primary interface for broadcast traffic and completely ignoring his secondary interface where he’s connected to a dedicated router with the printer.
Why I hate how how Bambu forces the use of broadcast traffic in order to connect. There really need a way to statically set the IP, which should have been a default for the X1E.
That might very well be the case. Should be easy enough to test by either using arp from a terminal and specifying the interface or simply disabling the primary interface.
Thank you for your discussion. I guess i could extract some information and at least some general knowledge.
For clarification, i used a standard TP Link Router only connected to the X1E via ethernet and to my PC. The Router doesn’t have any restriction other than the default settings. The Router is just a test setup.
IP Addresses are in the same subnet as specified by the router.
I also tried without a router, but the printer didnt get an IP and i was unable to set it via the display. Apparently many have this problem and there seems to be a workaround.
After some rechecking with my IT department and reassuring they got my problem right, they assumed blocked ports by company settings on the PC.
They are now looking into it, to check how they can integrate the printer in our network.
Maybe i can squeeze out some information about their solution and share them here.
As weak mentioned the arp from the Terminal. I just rechecked and using arp -a doesnt show the IP i see on my printer. But after pinging, i got the entry in the arp -a list.
Yet for now i need to use the micro SD card on the printer.
I had to make my printer and computer running Bambu studio be on the same subnetwork example printer 192.168.10.1 and 192.168.10.2 when i had the computer on a different subnet such as 192.168.11.2 it could not see it.
I am in similar situation, in a secure environment with extremely limited Internet access only via USB hotspot. Going to try 3d_printer-X!E suggestions next week.
Just using a Win10 p2p but Bambu X1E wants a DNS value and we aren’t using DNS, created and assigned ideas
thank you all for your help and comments.
it seems as if the company firewall blocked the ports. And on offline Mode the PC uses a very strict default firewall setting which also blocked the needed ports.
Now i had the IT Department open up the needed port in the subnet of the printer. Once joined the Subnet i can connect to the printer.
The needed ones need to be accessable, and you need to be in the same subnet. Also we have a dhcp server. In Lan Only mode its a bit tricky to assign an IP without a dhcp
Sorry I didn’t attach sooner, these are directions I got from Bambu support that allowed me to connect to our LAN. Got these couple months back, having a different issue today and saw this chat so thought I’d update.
First thing first, you will need to enable LAN Only mode in printer sittings. LAN Only control will only work with Bambu Studio, not Bambu Handy.
The Printer will obtain its IP using DHCP in automatic mode, or you can set it manually with the firmware version later than 01.00.01.07 (previous version have a bug that the manual settings will not be saved unless DHCP is present).
After you confirmed that the printer is accessable on the network (you can ping the IP address with your computer with a valid return), you should be able to access the printer in the “other devices” section in Bambu Studio. As you connect the printer via a switch, there should not be any firewall getting in your way. After entering the access code, you should be able to connect to the printer with no issue.
Hope this is helpful to someone.
Seems to have worked fine through our DLink router, though I’m having an issue with it not recognizing SDCard at the moment with the print transfer.
Going to update firmware as I am 2 behind and see there was some update to networking since I had this issue back in the March.
Hi, I just wanted to say thanks a lot. I tried several thing but did not dare to set the printer to Lan only mode. After reading your infos here I did and everything instantly worked as expected.
We are still experiencing this issue. I was happy to see the inclusion of the “Bind with Access Code” function in the Bambu Studio 1.10 Beta which enables manual IP connections, but the X1E does not currently support this function.
Bambu please enable this functionality in an upcoming firmware update – it is a huge deciding factor on whether my company will replace our aging Stratasys fleet with Bambus, or to seek out better solutions on the marketplace that are designed to work with enterprise-grade networking.
