Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

Post by edm0nd » Wed, May 13, 2026, 4:43 PM UTC

MrGilbert wrote: post #152

bri3d wrote: post #7

This looks to be a clone of the prior state of the repository that caused all the Bambu drama earlier this week. I did a ton of research because I didn't understand what people wanted here, and this is what's going on: Right now, Bambu have adjusted their system into two modalities: * "default" or "Cloud" mode, where you get an app, remote monitoring, but you have to use Bambu Studio or Bambu Connect to send prints.…

There is some context missing, which this video [0] explains. tl;dr: The original developer does not (or cannot) go into legal battle with Bambu Lab, so Louis Rossmann's project picked up the fight and hosts the (allegedly) troublesome code on their organization. As they have more financial resources, they look forward to the C&D letter. The point he has (and I agree with that): The original developer is using the un…

Post by edm0nd » Wed, May 13, 2026, 4:45 PM UTC

dakolli wrote: post #64

djfergus wrote: post #40

What is Bambu’s motivation here? What do they get for damaging their credibility like this? Just usage data? Training a model on everyone’s STL files?

Probably regulations, there are a few states trying to make it illegal for felons to own 3D printers by EOY. These things are about to get regulated like firearms, which is wild.

Post by basilikum » Wed, May 13, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

brookst wrote: post #268

dspillett wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if you sell a device with a certain functionality and you later modify that device later to remove that functionality that is called theft. It could be argued that it is not theft by various devious uses of legalise¹. Personally I'd go with calling it, at best, deceptive sales practices (on the assumption that they knew they'd be moving this way long before they did), or possibly outright fraud if I'm in a less gen…

Yeah I’m so tired of rhetorical games people play. It’s a shitty business practice, it is deceptive and possibly false advertising, it may be violation of a contract and / consumer production laws, but removal of a software feature is not “theft”. And many of these same people probably (and rightfully) laughed at music and movie people casting piracy as “theft”.

Post by drannex » Wed, May 13, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

happyopossum wrote: post #144

mrdoosun wrote: post #142

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> whether users can keep using hardware they already own without depending on a vendor cloud path. That’s a complete misunderstanding of the current state of affairs. Bambu didn’t take away local network support, and you can use any Bambu printer without any cloud or internet connection. What you can’t do is use a 3rd party slicer with their cloud servers…

Post by skinfaxi » Wed, May 13, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

danw1979 wrote: post #263

skinfaxi wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still pretty sour that they removed the ability to self-host the NVR and you have to use their cloud solution now.

You’re talking about when you used to be able to run Unifi Video on your own distro? Yeah that was good, but you definitely don’t have to “use their cloud solution” for NVR now; you buy the box, the video is stored on the box.