I have just finished a Bambu PETG-HF reel. Is it viable to reuse the RFID on another new filament? ie. I use ESUN PETG-HS. If I move the RFID from the Bambu PETG-HF to a new ESUN reel. I’m guessing that the AMS will identify the reel as an empty PETG-HF. Or will it? Does the AMS write data to the RFID? Is it possible to program an RFID with the correct information, ie. The brand and filament type. Anyone know. I’m just curious.
You can reuse the tags. The AMS will read it as the original filament.
It does not.
You currently cannot.
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Thanks, I did move the Bambu PETG-HF RFID tags to a new ESUN PETG-HS reel. Indeed, I can move it around the AMS slots, and it is identified as the original PETG-HF (white). The ESUN filament does seem to print fine using the Bambu print profile. So maybe it could be used this way. It’s intriguing, but I don’t see much benefit in doing this way ATM. Its a pity that Bambu dont sell the tags with a generic name ( STD-PLA, PETG, whatever) that we the customer could attach to a spool and assign a print profile to it.
Yeah. IMO BBL made a mistake not making the RFID a user-manageable feature so you could buy tags for your own filament and not just be locked in to BBL filament. I don’t see that it’d erode their own filament sales, but that’s the only thing I can think of that’d explain it, they did.
If they did “open” the RFID tag system, I suspect they’d more than make up for any lost filament sales with RFID tag sales.
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Hello,
Your (your) way of working is not optimal / wrong. It is possible to work with expired RFID chips.
For example, here is my AMS overview:
Filament in A1 is actually a ‘Generic-PLA’ spool, which has been labelled with the RFID chips of an empty Bambu Jade white spool. As you can see, the spool is also recognised as such.
After an AMS synchronisation, the filament overview looks like this, for example:
The numbers in front of the filament names do not indicate the AMS slot number (!), but only a consecutive numbering of the available filaments.
Now click on ‘Remove filament’ to reduce the number of filaments to the number actually required (unfortunately, this is not done by many creators of Makerworld profiles).
Click on the filament name to select the slot in the AMS system that contains the desired filament (in this case it is slot A1).
If you now slice the part, it takes the values for the filament reported by the RFID chip (see summary).
But now comes the trick (!). Instead of the filament reported by the RFID chip, you select the filament you want in the slicer (in my case ‘Flauschiges Schaf’).
After slicing again, you can see from the time etc. which filament values were used.
In the print area, the desired coil is then selected again in the AMS.
I use a P1S, which has been in LAN-only mode since commissioning. The Orca Slicer is used as the slicer.
Curiously, the RFID chips reported as empty are displayed as full again or with the approximate actual fill level in the AMS after being stuck onto the other coils.
This is quite intriguing, pretty smart. I have followed your procedure. However, I am not sure if the settings “stick”. I mean, if I move the reel to another position in the AMS what happens? I will have to spend more time experimenting to fully grasp your “trick” 
I dont know why but all my PA-profiles, are blank. Hmm.
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If you have received or created a filament profile for the ESUN PETG-HS, this is not a problem.
In the step where I selected the ‘Flauschiges Schaf’ filament, you search for the profile of your ESUN PETG-HS filament in your filament overview and select it.
Then slice the project and select the roll in the AMS in the print menu where your ESUN PETG-HS is located.
I don’t know why, but all my PA profiles are empty. Hmm.
These are values I entered manually.
Have a look here:
In ‘P1 series version01.06.00.00 (20240611)’ section ‘Improved manual flow calibration parameters management’.