Yes and no. If you leave your printer logged in and move, then yes, it’s totally normal that even with a different IP address, it will automatically use that account in another wifi network and so, it will send the normal “packet” showing that you / your account printed “X” model.
If you are not logged in on the printer side and you move your printer to another network, then the printer doesn’t know that you are using a combination of that account in that network and the packet sent will be totally different until you log in again.
What happened on my side was, step by step:
- Printer had no account logged in before moving it to another location / network. And the reason was because i did a factory reset because of an issue with the purge being continuous due to a firmware update, probably a bug.
- Before moving location we did not log in because i didn’t turn on the printer for 2 days due to lack of time (Christmas is a busy time of the year)
- We decided to bring the printer with us because a family member would like to see how they work before throwing money at Bambu and since the mini doesn’t take that much space, we agreed.
- We got there (another country), turned the printer on and my wife logged in with her account while i went shopping.
- Since we came back, the printer was still not used and it’s not even plugged.
So… another country, another ip address, another account other than mine. There is no reason to those prints, made in another country network, in another ip address and another account, to show up on mine. It’s a security and privacy issue.
My main problem with this is the same that we have been discussing for ages here in the forum. There is no official communication on how certain things happen or even why.
Trust… This is the main word. More people complained about this too. I waited so i would not be the first and be taken as “The bambu hater” but here we are.
And was there an official explanation about this? No, as usual. There would be… if this matter would backlash and explode on youtube. But it didn’t and yet i take this as a privacy situation and also security.
Imagine you sell your printer. Everything logged off and sell it, like everyone does it. The buyer takes the printer, connects it in his home, creates a new account and Bambu decides to say “Hey, it’s the same printer, let’s bind all the accounts used on that printer to the same person” and you start seeing what they do in your profile and vice-versa.
This should have been addressed. But it wasn’t. Instead it was easier to remove the “recent makes” all together and that’s it. Period!
Sorry for the long wall of text btw 