I think you missed this
https://forum.bambulab.com/guidelines
Take some time to read it over and report back.
Attacking someone in your first post is not a great way to build a reputation as someone to listen to.
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You never know.. Maybe it’s just “cardboard box conspiracy survalliance camera footage guy” coming in on an alt…
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You’d better not mention him - he was so mad at you, me, everyone, that he edited his already-posted comment a dozen times. That was all he could do, and he cursed the whole forum because of his wrong cardboard box. I haven’t seen that many swear words in a long time.
He even wrote in his posts that we’re all being brainwashed. I’m really surprised he wasn’t banned; that was definitely pushing the limits. On the other hand, though, it’s also good that people are banned so rarely.
The thread just isn’t visible anymore. Anyway, enough off-topic - I was just pointing out that people rarely get banned.
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On the other hand, more people should be banned… or at least put in time out.
But what’s the point when people make alt accounts to continue on their BS.
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I’d like to see a feature that allows you to set a timer on the threads created by yourself, so that each user can only post twice a day. It would work just like that other thread. This works really well for some threads because it encourages people to take the time to think about what they’re writing. This wouldn’t work for all threads, just the ones where the focus is on in-depth discussions.
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None of that suprises me lol. That whole ordeal was just like… is it April 1st? This can’t be a real thread.., right?? And the guy was dead serious!
Even worse, I checked, and he had past posts (talking just 6 months ago / Dec 2025 timeframe) absolutely bashing the model of printer in question in post after post. Like “biggest pile of junk ever”., then goes out and buys one 6 months later.
It’s all soo weird… haha
When you get warranty work done on either of those other products, do they just mail you a screwdriver and a link to a wiki? These aren’t the same products. Not even close to the same situation.
I love when people come in hot, to an argument that they are brand new on. An argument thats been going for a year. (original argument has been solved for a decade. only people in denial dont accept it) And they argue a ton of stuff thats been debunked a million times. I love how smart they think their comment will be.
Theres some people picketing against corporations…Im gonna go tell them why I think theyre wrong.
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What are you even talking about?
What does warranty work have to do with the points I’m making about cloud connection being in basically every tech sector product on earth?
Stick to your dragons and tears.
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Thanks for not being able to answer the question I asked and further proving my point.
Furthermore, I had a fleet of 3d printers long before consumer 3d printing was even a thing.
Some hobbyist questioning my intelligence is peak hilarity.
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Hurry, delete the evidence!
Only two reasons: Telemetry/data harvesting and locking down on their own ecosystem.
Certainly not stopping … stolen printers? WUT? How do you even envision it?
Good thing you had (in the past tense) that fleet. Just because you were exposed to some commercial machines doesn’t automatically make you an SME in consumer FDM and R2R.
What if enterprise lab manager would question it? Because after this comment, certainly it raises some questions.
… stolen printers huh.
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You realize they have a serial number right?
You realize BL knows what serial numbers have been sold right?
So yes, just like a vehicle’s VIN, you can easily track down if the printer is legit or not and they can most definitely black list the thing. This has been going on in electronics for a long time.
I have a variety of CNC machines (5 and 7 axis). All of them have can be setup to lock you out in a variety of ways if you are not the rightful owner. On 4 of them, I have to specifically call the manufacturer even if I want to move it, even as little as 200ft across the shop or into another building on my own property. It will down right brick the ECM if you aren’t authorized to do so.
So thinking that bambu doesn’t have a handle on which serial numbers they have out in the wild or one’s reported as stolen is pretty hilarious.
Man that’s great. You have a job and work for someone else.
If only my successful manufacturing business could do better! I should be contacting all the hobbyist W2 people to tell me how to do it instead!!!
Seriously. Thank you! lol
I literally laughed out loud. I appreciate it.
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Coming from a different angle. Lets say you have a device like say a TiVo and you think you are happily connecting to a cloud service, fine you say whats the problem you say?
What happens if TiVo shuts down that cloud service?
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What a world we live in. On one hand you have John Deere and the people that agree with their work practices or at least indifference.
Then there are those that want to be able to fix their combine harvesters in the field without having to bin a whole crop because a repair man could not come out for 3 weeks. (Replace this scenario with what ever practice you like, take a ford to a non ford dealer, not have to pay to turn on heaters in the rear of your car which you already own - enshitification)
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NO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND HOBBYIST. ME AND MY SUCCESSFUL MANUFACTURING BUSINESS
/s lol.
Corporations need to lobby only for one thing - develop a narrative in people that enshitification is a norm. Indifference is okay. Hence we have these prime example of bootlickers who think that John Deere lockouts or… in this case, BL doing BL things are OK. You can ■■■■ on their boots and tell them it’s raining.
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old tired thread but curious, have you actually USED the LAN/DEV mode? It is atrocious and very unstable. DEV mode is by name only, you don’t really have access to much of anything on the printer.
LAN mode itself doesn’t do anything on it’s except “grants” the ability to have local access to the printer, you still need to need enable DEV mode to then enable the little access they do allow to be able to print locally. That’s not what LAN and DEV modes are supposed to be. LAN should be just that, LAN mode. But they took what LAN mode alone is supposed to do and hid it behind so called “DEV” mode because they didn’t really want to give Dev level access to the printer, at all…. but they still wanted to be able to say they have DEV mode on paper.
DEV or DEVELOPER mode is supposed to give you access to the printer so you can for example, send your custom filament profiles in Bambu Studio to the printer so when you load a filament spool, you can select the profile from the screen but guess what, you can’t!!! There is NO WAY to upload your custom filament profiles into the printer without using the cloud. Something that should be a basic function, they locked it behind the cloud. Everytime you make a new custom filament profile for a new filament you bought, you have to put the printer in cloud mode just to send it to the printer so you can see it in the dropdown. That’s just ONE example of how they limit even LAN/DEV mode.
My guess is they want your custom profiles. If you can send them to your printer directly, that means they never get access to the data that they can use to make their own profiles. People using a Bambu Printer in LAN/DEV mode are also more likely to tune their profiles, that’s valuable data and they want it, so they FORCE you to do it via cloud. I guess nothing new here, take other people work and pass it off as yours is not something Bambu shy’s away from lol.
Put your printer in LAN/DEV mode and then use Bambu Studio (not even Orca, just good old Bambu Studio and see how stable/seamless it is). It’s riddled with connection issues for example, printer doesn’t stay connected, you literally have to manually go to Device and “connect” to the printer before you can send a print… every time. Your custom Pressure Advance profiles won’t load UNLESS you go to the calibration tab first, just to get them to be “seen”. The camera feed is even more unreliable (when it should be BETTER since it’s direct local connection)…but nope, you’ll lose the feed frequently.
NONE, and I mean NONE of these issues happen when I use my printer in……drum roll…….cloud mode. They literally make the experience MUCH worse, intentionally. None of this is any limitation of LAN/DEV mode in other printers that have LAN/DEV modes…. somehow only Bambu’s printers develop issues in LAN mode but not in Cloud? How very convenient for Bambu.
You see what I’m getting at? The whole local mode experience, even if you want to use Bambu Studio is severely handicapped, with intent that the user will eventually get frustrated enough to give up using the printer in LAN mode….
So to sit there and tell everyone that they give access to dev mode without even understanding it at all is pretty rich.
Give proper and most of all STABLE access to the printers via LAN/DEV mode and no one would have to do any “workarounds”…or ever get anywhere near their precious cloud services if they don’t want to. it really is as simple as that. People find workarounds because the alternatives they want you to use, they intentionally handicapped them so you get frustrated and get back on the cloud.
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LAN plus DEV mode has been pretty flawless for me. I never have to manually connect to the printer. That said, I only use Orcaslicer and Bambuddy with my P1S. My camera always works.
If you are having connection issues, I’d look at your wireless access point/router as a first step.