Took me by surprise, the AMS identifies it as Generic PETG HF in the correct color!
I didn’t know these had RFID tags?
I literally just finished one and there was no RFID tag (nor did it recognize it) - interesting … Maybe have a look once you run out …
Question, can you see a physical tag? Elegoo announced RFID last month but it was only advertised as working with their own (not yet released) AMS. Also I think they just announced it, I don’t think it’s rolled out yet. Is it possible you had a roll of PETG-HF in that slot before and it just defaulted back to that when you put a new roll in?
https://www.reddit.com/r/elegoo/comments/1ksnwzm/were_excited_to_introduce_rfid_technology_in_our/
I received a 4-pack of it last night, dried one spool overnight and just put it in the AMS and it recognized it.
From the outside of the spools I see no sign of a RFID. But this happened when the AMS Slot was empty and powered off: switched it on, waited for fully back online, then inserted the spool and there it was…
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Elegoo’s Upcoming Automatic Filament Switching System Will Use Open-Standard RFID | All3DP
We’ll find out in Q3, which is when Elegoo plans to release the Automated Filament Switching System, the company has told All3DP.
But we’re already getting peeks at how the system aims to stand out by the announcement of an open-standard RFID ecosystem. Elegoo has shared its EPC-256 Format RFID standard on GitHub,
I would go as far as to assume a combined dryer to keep up with bambu and anycubic
It was a fluke, actually a bug in Bambu Studio. After the print was done, I moved the spool to an empty slot in the AMS and it wasn’t recognized .
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Darn.
It would be really nice if Elegoo RFID worked with AMS.
I feel like the manufacturers ought to just all agree on an rfid standard so all printers regardless of brand can read any filament.
If you can’t stop people from using third-party filaments (and why would you?) then go the usb/hdmi/whatever route and make a set of clearly defined rules.
Just don’t do what Apple did and try to charge a buck for every sticker (they decided to charge for every firewire port and it upset Intel so much that they delayed their own CPU for several months to remove firewire).
Apple does love licensing things. I’m glad the EU pushed them to USB-C away from that awful lightning connector. I was replacing lightning cables like 6 times a year. Since usb-c I’ve not replaced a single one.
I also agree it would be nice if the RFID was standardized. Bambu encrypts their RFID so I can’t even (easily) rewrite or reset it. Annoying.
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This sounds perhaps more like an AMS bug then, whereby it “remembers” what was last in a slot if it can’t read a RFID tag?