Maybe I’m missing something but is there any way to have the live camera view go full screen in Bambu Studio. I’m on windows 11 and it makes no sense to not have this function. It would really be nice to be able to toggle full screen especially since we have these newer high quality cameras. I’m not always in the same room or location as the printer. Sometimes I might cancel a print based off of a quality issue. Using a large computer screen instead of my phone would be nice.
If its not available can make this a feature request on the next update? Thank you.
You’re not alone. Many users have requested this feature but fat chance of it every happening or at least without strings attached like giving up your privacy such as not being able to use it in LAN-only mode.
But Imagine if we did have it. The ability to take a feed from more than one printer and scale them to a tiled monitor much like a Network Security camera does. If Bambu supported open architecture this would be a reality, not a dream because we’d be able to leverage open source programs that do just that.
The X1 and P1 started shipping in late 2022, and this post from February 2023 appears to be the first of many requests for full-screen viewing. Given the time that’s passed with no response, it’s safe to assume we won’t see this unless someone reverse-engineers Bambu’s software. Based on how Bambu forced Bambu Connect on users despite consistent community opposition, it’s clear they’re not interested in user feedback—at least not until it starts affecting filament sales.
Given Bambu’s behavior since the inception of the X1, their could be a Machiavellian logic in play that matches their conduct.
In response to the backlash earlier this year (January 2025), Bambu said users who don’t want Bambu Connect should just freeze their firmware and never update again. However, once you update, you’re locked out of reverting more than one version back. You can roll from 1.09.06 to 1.09.01, but not back to 1.08. So the likely trajectory is this: features like full-screen and other basic usability improvements might eventually arrive, but only if you agree to Bambu Connect and its baked-in surveillance. My bet is on the fact that Bambu has been holding back on a lot of quality of life upgrades to Studio precisely for the intent that they won’t implement them unless the user is forced to upgrade to Bambu Connect with all of its privacy and security issues. That’s the trade. Want full-screen? Give up control and security.
If this were actually important to Bambu, we’d already have it. But that’s life in a walled garden. The flowers look nice—just don’t touch them, or the groundskeeper shows up with a clipboard and an update you didn’t ask for.
Or, better yet, maybe just support open architecture streaming protocols like:
RTSP
RTP
SRT
HLS
MPEG-DASH
HTTP/HTTPS streaming
UDP Unicast/Multicast
But who knows? Maybe Bambu’s just waiting for the industry to invent a standard they like.
I’m posting this nearly a year after the @Olias’ original, but I came across it while search for full screen support and it seems somewhat full of misinformation, at least as of today.
I implemented the full screen feature in BambuStudio yesterday and submitted a PR against it. I was able to do this because BambuStudio is fully open-source (you can find it on Github). Additionally, the printer I use, an X1-Carbon, but probably all the others as well have a LAN-only mode that one can enable on the printer as well as a developer mode if you’re inclined. When I turned this on I was able to print from my development copy of BambuStudio that I’ve been making source changes in.
So while it’s true that Bambu Lab does operate in a somewhat closed ecosystem, it’s not true that they’re actively blocking people from making their own changes. I’d even argue they’re going out of their way to support the community by making it possible for people like me, a professional software developer not employed or affiliated with Bambu Lab to make changes.
I’ve owned a number of 3D printers over the years and can confidently say Bambu Lab makes a product that is simply superior to everything else, and the fact I can hack on their software and improve it really just makes me that much more convinced I made the right choice in choosing a Bambu printer.
As far as why the full screen camera feature hasn’t been implemented before now, I can only guess, but I feel qualified to to do so. First, it’s a nuanced and difficult thing to do, and second, it’s very likely a low-priority item for the Bambu team. If you look at it from a customer-satisfaction point of view, they only have so much time in their day and it probably makes much more sense to concentrate on having their printers perform as close to flawlessly as possible vs implementing nice-to-haves. Of course, that’s just my opinion, but I’ve been on the business end of software development decisions for years and it’s always a game of prioritizing an endless stream of feature requests and bug fixes.
In any event, I posted the PR for the full screen view. Hopefully one of the Bambu engineers will get around to reviewing and merging it. It’s a useful addition.
