Wasn’t sure if this was the right place to post these, but I’ve been hacking around on some tools to work with more than one printer. My biggest issues are with Bambu Studio and it forcing me to manually switch from one printer to another just to see things like colors, files, status, etc. So I wrote a couple of cool apps that I’ve open sourced to Github:
Bambu Farm
A web app that shows you your printers, cameras, print status and AMS details:
I’ve only got access to my 2 X1C’s so I could use some testers that have 2+ machines as well as other models to make sure that I’m handling all the “edge cases”
Thank you for looking for and working towards a solution to this problem. Lots of people that complain about the issue but no one is willing to take up the torch to find a solution. Thank you for sharing your findings and work.
This will be helpful! I have docker running on my Unraid Server and now just need to figure out how to install this.
Question: I would like to add an LED strip to my P1S and use an addressable LED strip , WLED , and an esp8266. The Bambu Labs printers P1 and X 1 series output MQTT topics that can be watched for status changes. Things like printing started, printing finished , printing error, printing successful. Those topics could then be acted upon to change the state of the LED strip to Green for successful, Red for Error, Lights on when printing, lights off after a delay once finished printing , etc. There is a guy who has implemented this already , but shipping and cost of his device seems a bit steep for a person who could put this together using the ESP8266, A simple addressable LED strip and some knowledge of how to figure out the MQTT side of things. Any interest in lending a hand? Im not the most savvy when it comes to the code side of things.
I didn’t build the web app to emit those types of topics, but it wouldn’t be hard to add them. The web app has a WebSocket server that emits events from all of the printers bound to it. So, in theory, it wouldn’t be that hard to add a listener to it and do your thing.
With more and more new BL printers coming out and more people owning multiple printers, it should be logical for BL to develope the feature soon. Maybe you can inquire privately where this feautre is in their timeline and whether they welcome outside contributions and join forces with them if they do.
In theory it should, haven’t tested it as my printers are running most of the time and I haven’t switched them to LAN Only Mode yet.
The bambu-farm app is 100% local, it doesn’t talk to the cloud at all. The only resources it uses from the internet are standard CSS/JS included files in the webpage itself.
The bambu-cli only talks to the cloud once during login to fetch the machine information from their API and grab their IP addresses from the global mqtt server. From there on, it’s 100% local communication with the printers. So if while in LAN Only Mode those things still work, then it should “just work”.
It just requires you to be able to connect to the printer. They don’t have to be on the same network but they have to be accessible since it doesn’t use the cloud.
Great. Thank you. So basically you’re the number one reason for a lot of disgruntled families right now because all of us are going to spend the holidays with your freaking awesome tool Thank you!
Thank you!