Since getting my A1, i have only been able to get the Bambu handy app to stream the camera feed 3 times. This is incredibly frustrating. I have wasted a lot of filament and had many failed prints because the app refuses to load the camera feed so i cant check if the prints are doing well when I’m not home. What is the point of having this feature on the printer if it doesn’t work?
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yeah its VERY slow sometimes i cant pull up image but other times it will load i suggest gettting a c110 camera it has a nice mount to print that hangs from cutter arm area…
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No, I don’t want to buy a seperate camera on the principal that I already spent 600$ on a printer that’s supposed to come with one.
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ok stand your ground im sure that will fix it 
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I don’t own an A1 and dont have a solution. But you could do a search to see if someone does have a solution to your problem
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I’m right there with all of you, the camera hardly ever works. The same day the most recent firmware was released, I gave that A1 away and started using a newly purchased A1. The camera on the new A1 works every single time, but I don’t know if that is because of the new firmware or new hardware.
I assume everyone here is using the latest firmware.
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did you have layer issues with the new firmware i had to rollback mine because it was coming out looking like beef jerky on 2 different filaments strangely i rolled back and everything was silky smooth again… never had an issue prior with firmware i may try to upgrade again and see if same results today
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I haven’t had any layer issues yet, but my old A1 had a “build plate is not placed properly” error that could only be resolved by rolling back the firmware. According to my brother who now owns that printer, he has updated that printer to the latest firmware and it works great. I just reached out to him and he confirmed that the camera still only works about 10% of the time though 
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The camera is shockingly bad to the point it is a ridiculous waste of money to have included it.
I can only imagine the choice to include a poor-quality camera (same as the A1 mini) was designed to differentiate the A series from the P series. The A series has a far better screen than the P series, so, I imagine there was a decision to remove some features and the camera lost.
With a better quality camera costing around $5 or less, the monetary amount could not have been the deciding factor.
I have hooked up security cameras in front of my printers, and although the A1 is going back and the P1S has an OK camera, it isn’t great either. It comes on, but, the framerate is lacklustre and the quality is only 720p.
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That build plate error was likely caused by the heatbed alignment DIY print. So if your old printer had one of those, that’s why it was doing it. I think they have since fixed that.
I really don’t even care about the quality of the camera. Its good enough to check if my prints fail and that’s all I need. What is not good enough, is that It never works.
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I didn’t say anything about the image quality, I said the camera was bad and of poor quality.
Good quality cameras work, bad quality cameras don’t.
They say it works up to 1080p, it either does or it doesn’t. In this case, the camera is so hit and miss it wouldn’t matter if it was VGA.
When you have a lack of image, the resolution is irrelevant.
I had a thread about this when I first got the printer; but I logged a ticket and they came back and said the CPU was struggling to support the camera over network. Considering how good the printer was working compared to my ender 3 v2 I just purchased a wyze 3 camera for $25 and printed a mount for the printer and haven’t looked back. wasn’t that big a deal to me.
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This^
The A1 camera rarely loads for me. I’m with Tex, get and external and move on with life.
I doubt it’s the CPU that is the limit as it does work “well” in LAN-mode.
But as soon as the pictures has to go through the cloud they rarely show up. My guess is that it’s the cloud that is the bottleneck.
Well you will be thrilled to note that the newest firmware update seems to have bricked my barely functional camera completely now. (01.02.02.00).
Before the camera worked when it wanted to. Now it just says ‘Printer camera is malfunctioning’.
Wonderful. Such a great deal.
Why do I keep hearing James Earl Jones saying ‘I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further’?
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Hi, Does it not work at all or just very slow?
I just got mine yesterday. Camera works just as it’s supposed to and it has been updated to the latest firmware.
It takes a shot in roughly one second intervals so that you can make sure that the filament is remaining adhered to the bed if you are away from the printer, and will do timelapses of your print if you want.
That’s really all I need. I don’t ever need to just sit there and watch something print.
Thank you very much
Thank you very much
The a1 series uses an esp32 variant for camera/ui that really cannot handle live streaming. This is unlikely to be fixable in software.