Verbose Printing Mode

Bambu Lab Software Feature Requests
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It would be really nice it we could set the X1 to show a kind of text console in the right half of the screen instead of the pretty but not super informative stuff we have now. Literally just a scrolling text window like a read only linux terminal. I’m thinking it could be a switch in the settings for those who prefer it.

Could display things like:

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file sent from Bambu cloud... processing
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heating printbed to 60c - heating nozzle to 140c
homing XY axes
homing Z axis
return to purge chute
heating nozzle to 250c
wiping nozzle
cleaning nozzle tip
precision homing Z axis
moving to start position
etc.
etc.

Just more detail. Maybe I’m just OCD but I like the idea of having a readout of exactly whats going on instead of pretty graphics but I’m interested to see what others here think. It seems like this would be easy to implement and update compared to the pretty graphics but I am not a developer and I don’t want to pretend to know what I’m talking about on that front.

Thoughts?

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If I grok you correctly, a human readable GCODE parser in a console? Actually that would be pretty cool to help better understand what the printer is doing and even what to tweak / mod if you want or need to :slight_smile:

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Something like that, yeah. Mostly for all the stuff going on before and after the main print. Inspection, calibration, leveling, filament changes, etc. I am assuming there’s an internal log somewhere in the firmware, and I am wondering if that can be exposed to a live output. Or at least parts of it.

If there are print issues, I feel like it could help. For example if you’re having extrusion issues, you could watch the live console while it’s running flow calibration. Does it fail? Does it use a weird K value? Right now we don’t have access to stuff like that.

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