BTW, Bambu Connect is totally broken on macOS… it crashes on startup.
I opened a ticket reporting that it’s a bug that should be escalated to the developers, but the support agent didn’t understand.
Honestly, the situation is grotesque — the bug itself isn’t the real issue (these things can happen), but rather the complete carelessness and lack of testing.
I probably wouldn’t have bought the printer today, and I say that with regret.
The error: A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: Invalid or incompatible cached data (cachedDataRejected)
at Module._extensions..jsc.Module._extensions..cjsc (/Applications/Bambu Connect.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/build/main-loader.cjs:50:11)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1295:32)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1111:12)
at c._load (node:electron/js2c/node_init:2:16955)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1318:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:179:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/Applications/Bambu Connect.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/.vite/build/main.js:3:1)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1484:14)
at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1564:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1295:32)
Looks like this is here for the A1 now - only change mentioned for 01.05.00.00 (20250603)… was hoping there would be some bug fixes for things like the screen lag introduced in 01.04.00 … so not updating to this for a while as I dont want my HA dashboard to be rendered useless.
Screen lag is likely not going to be ‘fixed’ on the A1 series because the source of that issue is the slower processor on that less expensive line of products.
If it weren’t for the fact that it didn’t happen on the firmware version prior to that, I would somewhat agree with you… but it didn’t, so clearly the issue is software related, not just due to the MCU being used - i.e. I suspect either they didn’t optimise the graphics sufficiently (thus more overhead/bandwidth needed) or they need to do some steps in a slightly different order…
I second the comments re the value of an API rather than just an application - using any windows requiring manual input at all is a major annoyance - everything else in my workflow is scripted (I’m using OpenSCAD to design things). I’ld like to have my linux scripts also be able to send the final file to the printer and kick off the print job.
I would imagine that blind users would also have some unnecessary level of difficulty having to do everything from a point & click GUI - I doubt very much the current interface is ADA compliant, which probably means that these can’t be purchased by US universities where hardware and software purchases usually have to be ADA compliant.
That part would be “easy” for them to resolve… if they insist on going down this path, it needs to be CLI scriptable. The bigger hurdle for those of us on Linux is that it is still even now “in beta” and there is no Linux version of the tool available.
… so not updating to this for a while as I dont want my HA dashboard to be rendered useless.