IP keeps switching between 0.0.0.0 and the proper address

Bambu Lab P1 Series Troubleshooting
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My P1S has just stopped connecting to Studio.

On the screen of the printer, the IP address is 0.0.0.0

Every minutes or so, the IP address changes on the printer screen to show the correct address, and then goes back to 0.0.0.0 in a few seconds.

I don’t really understand networking in much detail. I have been access the printer using a WLAN at home, and its been fine. But at lunch time I switched the printer off for a while, and now when I switched it back on again I have this unstable IP address, and the studio cannot connect to the printer.

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Hi. The P1P uses an ESP for connecting to WLAN. These Controllers have some limitations:

  • only can use 2.4GHz WLAN
  • problems with special characters in WLAN name
  • only 200kbps transfer rate

If you‘re using a Mesh WLAN, try to deactivate the Mesh repeater and have only the Mesh master active, while you add the printer into the WLAN. Afterwards you activate the repeaters again.

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Thanks. I am not good at understanding networks. I don’t know ESP, other than Extra Sensory Perception, and Email Service Provider.

I do use a repeater to access the internet. I live in a small unit next door to the main house, and use a repeater to get better access to the WLAN we have installed in the main house. In extends the existing network without making a new network name. Access to the main router is very spotty from my workroom where the printer is installed. So that sounds credible as a source of the problem. If the printer is, for some reason, latching on to the much weaker signal from the main house rather than from my repeater station, then that would explain a very intermittent connection.

Quite apart from being pretty clueless about what I need to do to “add the printer into the WLAN” (I tend to follow recipes without understanding the details of what I am doing, which I find disconcerting. I like to understand what I am doing… :slight_smile: I suspect my printer will have problems accessing the wifi without the repeater.

Anyhow, my printer started behaving correctly again after being off line for a while with this issue, all without my doing anything. Thanks very much for the reply, you’ve given me a very useful handle for trying to figure out what is going on, or resolving the issue if it happens again!