Wifi requires both an ID and a password

[E2nO]

Hi folks,

I have a P1S and it had been working fine in my local WiFi network, which only required SSID and password.

I recentyl moved to a place where the connection to WiFi requires an additional “User ID”. Unfortunately the user id is not requested in the Bambu App when I try to connect to Wifi and password only (w/o providing a user id) will not connect.

I do understand that I can configure the Wifi Settings with user_wifi.cfg file, however the template and example provided only shows “ssid” and “password” as configurable parameters.

Does anyone know, if user_wifi.cfg supports a parameter for a user id - and how that would need to be “coded” into the user_wifi.cfg file? I guess I can start trying “id:xxx” or “user:xxx” and other alike things - but I be rather happy if someone could confirm if and how this is working at all (or not at all).

I still have the possibility to connect with a LAN-cable … but I rather would like to avoid having to rig 10m of cable through my appartment and setup a network switch as well.

Thank you
Enno

[PrinterMcgee]

Welcome to the forum!!

I don’t know if it supports a user id but if it does this MIGHT work:

ssid:xxxxxxxx
identity:xxxxxxxx
password:xxxxxxxxxx

I found that here, it’s how to connect a Raspberry Pi to an enterprise network:
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=312064

[E2nO]

Thank you, @PrinterMcgee. Unfortunately, your suggestion did not work out.

I have however found another thread that perhaps does adress the same issue:

WiFi security protocols (WPA2-Ent 802.1X) needed

Any progress on this? We have several P1S printers and would like to connect them to the 801.1x (WPA-EAP) protected Wifi (EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP or EAP-PWD). There is support for 802.1x on the ESP32 plattform they used. So it’s mainly a question of adding that code to their firmware. Pleeease provide us with 802.1x support! Using a cheap router as a gateway is just a hack.

It seems however that P1S at this time does not support WPA2 Enterprise

[RocketSled]

The X1E is probably the only one that does. “E” for “Enterprise”.

[RocketSled]

@E2nO

I recentyl moved to a place where the connection to WiFi requires an additional “User ID”.

Actually, thinking about this a bit… is this a business where they might care if you circumvented their security? If not, provided you’ve got the know-how, you could use a Raspberry Pi as a bridge. Have it join the WPA Enterprise network with its native WiFi, and use a second USB WiFI dongle to serve up a WAP that’s just plain WPA. Connect the printer to that access point instead.

When my Cable goes out (which thankfully isn’t very often), I plug a Pi in to my home router in place of the cable modem, and then I have the Pi WiFi connect to my cell phone hot spot. The Pi bridges the hot spot to the network router. So my entire network runs off my phone, and it goes through my router so my network is protected just the same and I don’t have to reconfigure anything. Just swap a cable.

[simon14]

@RocketSled

When my Cable goes out (which thankfully isn’t very often), I plug a Pi in to my home router in place of the cable modem, and then I have the Pi WiFi connect to my cell phone hot spot. The Pi bridges the hot spot to the network router. So my entire network runs off my phone, and it goes through my router so my network is protected just the same and I don’t have to reconfigure anything. Just swap a cable.

You can pretty much use most of wifi-routers in Client mode instead of AP mode, then you have easier and cheaper solution than a using a RPI.

Back in the day when mesh wifi was not a thing, I had to use this method to provide internet connection to my desktop.

[RocketSled]

Would be true if it was a WiFi Router. But I don’t believe in WiFI and Router integration. I run a Ubiquity router with a Linksys Mesh for the WiFi component. As configured, the Linksys won’t route. I’d have to see if there was a way to make the router route through a LAN address as an automatic fallback when the WAN goes down (which there may well be. The Ubiquity stuff has a bunch of features I’ve never had to look at. It’s a very configurable appliance). Otherwise, my Pi solution is less work.

[E2nO]

Hi all,
the network admins allowed for WPA2 private connection thus standard P1S Wifi Connection was possible. Babulab in other support ticket stated that WPA2 Enterprise (with would require the additional ID) is not supported for the P series.
I am happy that there was a solution for me, but I feel unhappy for all the others that rely on WPA2 Enterprise and have no other easy solution.
As it had been stated in other postings: This is nothing that the HW cannot do, it should be an easy “fix” to the firmware - BambuLab just would need to implement it.
I doubt that however that the argument “you should rather have bought an X1E” will taken positivly by those in the community w/o a solution. So @BambuLab - please consider updating your firmware.