Bambu Studio "Failed to download the [network] plug-in" on Linux

Bambu Lab Software Bambu Studio
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Running Bambu Studio latest version 01.10.02.76 (Fedora flavor).
On ARCHLINUX (AMD64, not ARM), fully-up-to-date.

At startup time, the network plugin is NOT downloaded anymore (it was working fine with all previous versions).

Error is :
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About :

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And yes i do know that link (in the error box : Failed to Get Network Plugin | Bambu Lab Wiki), but there is nothing at all related to this issue (and i have 0 network issue, no VPN activated, no firewall issue).

Also there is nothing at all in the console (when launching bambu studio from a terminal).

2

Not sure on this one sorry, it might be worth asking Bambu support but they are not very good :laughing: !

Thanks,

OTpandy1

Happy Printing!

3

Today I got exactly the same error for this version of Bambulab when installing the latest version. I run MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 and also no VPN running whatsoever. Looked through all the things from the wiki but to no avail. HOW?!!!
Any updates on this topic?

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Not on my side - i tried many things (like trying to manually downloading the plugin, …) but without any success.

For now i reverted to the previous Bambu Studio version, as for this one, the plugin is already cached in local for me, so it’s still working (at least for the moment).

5

I also reverted to a previous version and it works again. I also submitted a ticket and got a reply that I had to revert to older version and that they are aware of the problem and working on a fix :wink:

6

Still the exact same error with Bambu Studio v02.00.03.54 (latest public release), both FEDORA or UBUNTU flavor.

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Any ideas ?!

It seems that with latest firmware, the latest bambu studio is now mandatory, but if i can’t have the network plugin, it really going to be a blocker.

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Ok it litteraly took me hours to understand how to manually download the plugin (many informations are missing on the wiki), but in the end, what needs to be done is :

VERSION="02.00.03.54"
SHORT_VERSION=$(echo "$VERSION" | sed 's/\([0-9][0-9]\.[0-9][0-9]\.[0-9][0-9]\).*/\1.00/')
echo "Bambu Studio [$VERSION], expected API version [$SHORT_VERSION]"
curl -sL "https://api.bambulab.com/v1/iot-service/api/slicer/resource?slicer/plugins/cloud=$SHORT_VERSION"|jq ".resources[0].url"|read URL
LINUX_URL=$(echo "$URL" | sed -e 's/win_/linux_/' -e 's/"//g')
echo "Identified LINUX URL [$LINUX_URL]"
cd ~/.config/BambuStudio/plugins
wget --quiet "$LINUX_URL" -O bambu-linux-network-plugin.zip
unzip -o bambu-linux-network-plugin.zip
rm -f bambu-linux-network-plugin.zip >/dev/null 2>&1 
ls -Al

Then the resulting result is :

~/.config/BambuStudio/plugins% ll
total 18M
drwxr-xr-x 2 sergio sergio 4.0K 2025-05-01 14:42 backup
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sergio sergio 6.5M 2025-04-22 11:02 libBambuSource.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sergio sergio 4.6M 2025-04-22 11:02 libbambu_networking.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sergio sergio 6.7M 2025-04-22 11:02 liblive555.so

And from there, the latest Bambu Studio version is now working fine … (network plugin activated, login working, etc.)

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this works, thanks.

Just the “jq ".resources[0].url” didn’t work. had to extract the link by hand from the json.
But: for me the folder was: ~/.config/BambuStudioInternal/plugins (plugins was not there, had to create it and put libs here)
Maybe this is because I installed Bambulab Studio from source, idk.
So if you follow the code above and you don’t have ~/.config/BambuStudio/plugins , then check if you have ~/.config/BambuStudioInternal/ - if so create the plugins there.

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Ok I.m trying to figure out how to get this to work. I was able to download and install the the studio using Linux, and as stated here I do have issues with he network plug in. Can I get a step by step how to get this fixed? I don’t know much about this so if you need more infor let me know.