I’m having issues, like a lot of others, getting my P1S to bind to my account through my home WiFi. It works with my phone hotspot but that isn’t sustainable. I, like others, have tried a litany of things to get it to work.
I think this could possibly be a router chipset incompatibility. I have run into that in the past with other IOT items. I think a good amount of points of data would help a lot of people (or might not). Trends could be found.
Those of you that have been successful binding printers with accounts on your home WiFi, what routers are you using?
Those of us that it won’t work what routers are you using?
The P1P/P1S are using an Espressif micro controller (ESP32) with their Wifi-functionality to connect to your Wifi network. These chips are known for problems with:
repeaters
connecting to networks which are using 2.4 and 5 GHz with the same name
sometimes with special characters in Wifi name / SSID e.g. Spaces
So reduce problems then at least while connecting the P1P/P1S try following:
switch off 5GHz part of Wifi
bring P1P/P1S into the near of the router and switch off repeaters
(if possible) remove special characters like spaces from the Wifi name / SSID
Is the printer integrated into the Wifi, the 5 GHz network and the repeaters can be activated again.
I have an iphone12 and tp-link archer ax50 router and can’t get my new P1S to bind. After pairing bluetooth it “Failed to request the printer’s Wi-Fi list FlutterBluePlusException: writeCharacteristic: (code: 5) Authentication is insufficient” or “Failed to request the printer’s Wi-Fi list FlutterBluePlusException: writeCharacteristic: (code: 6)”.
Repeaters are small physical Wifi devices which will extend the range of the Wifi network from the router. If you have such devices installed in you Wifi network, then switch them off. But take care, that the printer is (temproary) on a place, where the router Wifi network is reachable. If the printer is connected to your Wifi network, you can switch the repeaters on again and put the printer on its target place.
I’m using a TP Link Archer C80 with separate 5GHz and 2.4GHz SSIDs. I put it on the 2.4 because 5 has issues getting through all the walls between the printer and the router. Absolutely no issues although this is only my first day using it.
Short notice: After I’ve flashed my Fritz!WLAN Repeater with OpenWrt and created a additional Wifi network using 2.4GHz I never had connection issues any more.
So I think the key to success is a 2.4Ghz Wifi network with an SSID, which is not used by a 5GHz Wifi network.
I had a lot of issues (barely ever able to connect) when having my modem/router and another router on the other side of my house both with the same SSID names. I switched the second router off and haven’t had any issues since.
TP Link Omada EAP650 access points, ER605 router and OC200 controller.
I have a separate hidden 2.4GHz WiFi for my WLED controllers. I switched this to visible, connected the printer, power cycled a couple of times to ensure it connected happily and then rehid the SSID. It’s connected first time, every time after that.
If you were to log into your router you will be able to see connected devices. You should see “exspressif” as one of the connected network devices. If by chance you have limited the pool of IP addresses to be allocated by DHCP then you will not be able to connect another node/network device to you network. To fix this simply open up your IP pool by one which will allow your network device on your router/gateway.
I have a TP-Link Deco 6E Mesh with additional towers. I am on my second Bambu P1S because I spent 5 days struggling to bind the first printer. Exchanged it at MicroCenter and struggling with the same problem on this second Bambu P1S. I can access the internet but cannot bind therefore the App is not usable. I can only bind on cellphone tether. Using the IoT network set to 2.4GHz only. Error message says “Cloud Access Failed”. DOS ping works fine. Deco App shows good status. What am I missing?
