LAN Only and Mac Ventura?

Bambu Lab Software Bambu Studio
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BambuStudio listens on *:2021 for broadcast announcements from printer(s). These are then used by BambuStudio to connect back to the printer(s). Unfortunately:

  1. there’s no way to manually configure a printer by IP address
  2. only one application at a time can bind to *:2021, so, e.g., running Orca and BambuStudio at the same time for LAN-only devices doesn’t work.
  3. your computer needs to be in the same broadcast domain as the printer, and allow unsolicited incoming traffic.*
  • Unless you spoof it using this sort of trickery. This DOES work; unfortunately, it doesn’t solve problem #2, and it’s not persistent, so if you reboot BambuStudio, one must re-spoof.

Honestly, it’s a lot of trouble and hackery to avoid adding a printer by IP address. Please, please just let us add by IP address. :weary:

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