Feature Request: Estimated Completion Time Display in Local Time

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Hello fellow Bambu Lab enthusiasts,

I wanted to share a feature request for Bambu Studio that I believe could be a slight enhancement to our printing experience. Currently, we can see the remaining time for a print, but wouldn’t it be convenient if we could also see the estimated local time when the print will finish?

This addition would allow us to better plan our schedules, knowing exactly when to attend to the printer for starting subsequent tasks or prints. It’s a simple tweak that could make a big difference in how we manage our printing jobs, especially for those of us juggling multiple tasks.

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Thanks everyone!

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I was going to make this post before I searched and saw it was already done, hopefully we get it soon! It would be nice if I knew the print finish time 1)At time of slicing and sending to printer, and then when monitoring on Handy after!

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Yeah, it seems like an easy add to the software as it’s just calculating the current time plus the remaining time. Hopefully we could see this soon.

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Great suggestion and programmatically easy.

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They should be able to grab the code from OrcaSlicer, which already displays completion time.

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In most programming languages it is only one line of code to convert the time.

A few more to provide an option to swap between them.

This is basic stuff for them.

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I have been wanting this feature, and like another user I was going to suggest it and saw that you had all beat me to it.
I don’t understand why this has not been implemented? I can’t be difficult to do and would make my life so much easier than trying to count forward the amount of hours and minutes to work out what time I need to clear the print bed. My printer runs continuously and any down time is money lost so I like to be there to load another print as soon as the previous one has finished.
The feature of having the printer display the local time that it is due to finish the print would be a godsend. Also, an alarm function to sound when it’s about to finish? Say five minutes before? Sometimes I don’t get the print finished notification for an hour.
It could also recalculate the finish time if say you had to attend to the printer to change a filament or something of that nature which would extend the print finish time.
Please please please look at implementing this

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Time of completion as provided by OrcaSlicer:

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Just wanted to open a request too. I hope your forum post will not go unnoticed.

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Come on Bambulabs Orca Slicer managed to do it.

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Welcome to the community @Stevvie, hopefully we can see this in an update soon. I’d love to know when to come back to my machine without having to do the mental math. :smiley:

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I would also love to see this. Should be very easy to implement and is a huge quality of life enhancement.

How can we make sure Bambu lab has visibility on this?

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I found an iOS app called “joint” that shows completion time. There’s a paid version but the free version shows estimated completion time and the notifications seem to work. I’m guessing it’s misting using MQQT and the RSTP stream, but it works for easy estimates and notifications that actually work

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Do you have a link to share, I searched for “joint” and found nothing resembling that app.

It might be a country specific app of course.

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Oh weird, I can’t find it searching “joint” either.

I was searching “3D Printing apps”

Here’s the Canadian link, hope it helps! It says “Joint Craft - 3D Print Monitor” in the title, but the app just calls itself “joint” after installed:

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I will look again with this extra info, thanks.

I previously found a lot of food (carving joints) and smoking joints (weed) apps when I looked.

Update

I found it on the first go, the suffix “craft” nailed it.

It is an iPhone-only app, but, I will be using it on the iPad and my eyesight is shot. I will cope, do not cry on my behalf.

Update 2

It works. Only one printer before payment is required.

I am not a fan of subscription models, so, I will try it out for a while and then buy what looks to be a pro-level one-off payment.

Thanks for the tip.