This is the problem I’m having. Nothing is mentioned anywhere about the X1E. The P1/X1 series get mentioned a ton, but there hasn’t been anything on the X1E since last year. I have an AMS2 on mine as well, but with no news or updates from Bambu, I have no idea how long they plan to take.
We have now two options waiting til they do firmware update, or to buy H2D 
You wont be completely disappointed. Besides drying, it also has new brushless motors that make less noise and are much faster. Plus the filament inlets have a ceramic plug, so wont wear out. Even without the drying, its still worth the extra money vs ams1.
Well, I got excited to see the update and rushed through without reading all of the pop-ups. I installed the update without disconnecting my four AMS 2 Pro units from my X1C. I did not get any errors and the update did not fail. That was yesterday and I have completed several prints since then. Everything seems fine. I have not used the dry function as my filaments were all dried before being put into the AMSs and humidity is showing 10% or less on all of them. But the function is now available. BTW - I do have a power adapter connected to each AMS unit.
You should really indicate that you should unplug the AMS in the devices - and not in a forum post.
I switched on my X1C yesterday and the message for the firmware update came up - which of course I just did without unplugging anything. You don’t know anything about it …
I use the COMGROW filament dryers and print with them while drying all the time. It also baffles me why Bambu doesn’t have that as an option too. Please add it!
Its because your comgrow doesnt have a high tension set of feeding gears that the filament sits in. And its cold by the time it hits the extruder. Feed some filament into an ams 2 and then pull it back out. Look how deep the gear teeth marks are while the filament is cold. Much more tension on the gears than ams1 even. I imagine the gears slowly sink into the filament, causing a easy breakable area, jams at the extruder gear and underextrusion when the smashed area leaves the nozzle.
Imagine what the eddy sensor does as that smashed area passes it.
Best bet is feeding from an ams ht, but tell the printer its printing from the side spool, then heat the ams ht while printing from the bypass port. With auto rotate turned off
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I’ve got a P1P and I can see the option to enable drying on the P1P display, and I can see single digit percentages of humidity now on both my AMS and AMS 2 Pro, and I see the little sun logo in Bambu Studio and Bambu Handy, but I see no way to manage drying from Studio or Handy - am I missing something?
As described in the firmware section, 1.08 is the latest for the P1-series: Firmware Download | Bambu Lab and I am running 1.08, AMS is running 00.01.06.62 and my AMS 2 Pro is running 02.00.19.68. Everything says it is up to date. Where in the software do I turn on drying? Thanks!
Nowhere in the software, you have to do it from the screen on the printer.
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Ugh. Booooooooooooooooooooooo
Thanks for the confirmation.
That would interest me too!
I already have the new AMS 2 Pro on the printer and would like to be able to use the drying function soon.
I feel the same way!
We only bought the new AMS because of the drying function and we can’t use it now. The other improvements are nice but were the reason I bought the new AMS.
I can understand that many more X1C and P series printers are being sold, but it would still be nice to be able to use these new functions with the X1E printer.
It seems like I can’t use the drying function with my AMS 2 if I’m printing, even if it’s not the AMS being used to print with. I have 2 AMS units, one AMS 1 and one AMS 2. They’re connected using the hub. I am doing a single color print where the filament is only in the AMS 1 unit. I am unable to enable the drying in the AMS 2 unit because a print is ongoing, even though none of the filaments in the AMS 2 unit are used in the print. This seems like a bug - I should be able to dry filaments in the AMS 2 unit that’s not currently in use for this print.
I think they’ve said you have to start the drying in the unused AMS first, then begin printing from filament in the other AMS. Honestly though, I can’t get the drying to start at all in my AMS 2 with all PLA. It just tells me to remove and store the filament and won’t let me hit start. My understanding was that there were two modes - 1 with the filament queued that dries without rotating the spools, and another where you pull the filament and it dries and rolls the spools. Haven’t had a chance to try the second mode yet, though. Looking foward to literally any documentation on how to do this with a P1P.
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This matches my experience with the P1S - I can’t really get it to do any drying at all. Even while not printing, I’ll go in through the front panel (WHY doesn’t it work via the mobile app or desktop app?) and try it to start it and it complains about needing to remove the filament.
Not on my H2D with anything except PLA. Is this a P1S or X1C limitation on the firmware?
Thanks for the heads up. I must have always had some pla loaded when i tried
People are using the 4 in one adapter instead. Why do you not tell people about this?
My p1s has a buffer already for the ams. The 4in one is added after the buffer. I’ve read enough and watched enough YouTube videos that I think the 4in 1 is just as good as a 50 dollar hub. Just from the opinions I’ve gotten.
Oh my gosh I ordered and setup the AMS 2 Pro thinking the obvious that the unit dries the filament while printing. What an utter disappointment !! Without this ability this product upgrade makes no sense to me. Why Bambu???
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