I understand that you can only set up autorefill if the second spool is the same brand, material, and color. The latter is not important to me, so I’d like to trick my AMS Lite into thinking the second spool is the same color. However, since all of my spools are Bambu Lab brand, they all have the RFID tag and the AMS knows what they are. How can I get my AMS to think the second spool is the same color as the first and therefore set up autorefill?
You can open the spool, cut off the RFID’s, and set it manually.
Or disable all the AMS auto-detect functions but unfortunately, I only have an X1 and can not advise on the AMS light.
Unless it has been changed recently, you can edit the info even with the RFID tag there. I think the intent was to allow correction if an RFID tag was ever wrong, but your edit button on the AMS config panel should still work and allow you to make changes as you need. It will then associate those changes with that particular RFID tag only.
yeah, I considered cutting off the RFID, however after my second spool fulfills its role of finishing a print under its pseudonym, I’d like it to return to its normal life with its original identity. Turning off auto-dectect (and then turning it back on afterward) sounds like a better option.
I’ll look into how to do that.
The edit button on the A1 under the AMS section is grayed out- unpushable.
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In Handy and Studio, I can disable the reading of filament information in the options of the device tab.
Hope it also works with the AMS light.
If you click the little emblem of an RFID tag located below the filament type, marked in the first image, it should open the edit box that you see in the second image.
To undo your edits later, just click the circular reset button to the right where the slot number is and it will restore the original data from the RFID tag.
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It seems that something maybe has been changed with it, as I can no longer get the dialog box to let me make the changes like I used to. Previously I could change the filament type or the color, but now it doesn’t seem to allow it.
What are you saying; that there is no way to override the RFID tags?
Here is a link to a different thread about this topic. Couple different options.
The only thing I find right now that seems to work requires you to disable ‘update on startup,’ load what you want it to think it has, unload the filament, turn it off, pull that filament off the AMS and change it while it’s off and then turn it back on.
I just did that and changed my green to beige and it loaded up the beige when I turned it back on but thinks it’s still green.
There seems to be no such option for the AMS Lite, unless they’ve hidden it really well somewhere else.
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autorefill sounds like a pain. Could I manually refill? Say it runs out mid print and alerts me. Could I then replace the empty spool with a new one of a different color and have it pick up where it left off? Or would it see that the RFID is indicating it’s a different color and reject it?
If you are using a A or P series, I have not tried with an X xeries, you can do the following.
Print using whatever filament is in the AMS/AMS lite right now.
When it runs out, remove the empty and use a new spool.
The RFID is not checked during the print process (unless something changed very recently) and it will continue printing.
You must match type for type, do not swap PLA for PETG, but, you can swap PLA for PLA, the colour of the filament is not important DURING a print process.
The RFID is not checked during a print, only before and after.
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@MalcTheOracle : All of that also applies to the X series 
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Cheers, I no longer assume as it makes an a$$ out of me!
My print just used the last of a spool. I put in one of another color and just kept going. Thanks!
Happy to help.
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