Tinkerer that hasn’t had a 3D printer for a few years now. Thought about going back in and buying a printer and the carbon x1 was on the top of my list. Previously I had creality XY printers.
Should I avoid Bambu now? The lidar and the click and print is what really draws me. I don’t want to be a tinkerer AND a printer engineer, but I also don’t support companies that mess with their customers like this.
Does anyone recommend another solution?
The Verge got official answers to some questions and IMHO the responses are all wrong.
- Will Bambu publicly commit to never requiring a subscription in order to control its printers and print from them over a home network?
For our current product line, yes.
- Will Bambu publicly commit to never restricting the use of third-party filament in any way, shape, or form?
For our current product line, yes.
- Will Bambu publicly commit to offering and keeping the local Developer mode available in any future printers it releases?
We cannot commit to features for non-existent future printers.
- Will Bambu publicly commit to its current and future printers permanently being remotely controllable over LAN without user account or Internet access?
For current models: Yes.
Basically it was corp speech for “DRM on filament, subscriptions, and forced cloud mode will come in the next models”. Otherwise they wouldn’t have put such emphasis on “current models” and completely leave the door open for anything that might come out next month
When a company or person is telling you who they are, listen to them.
The thing is -and neither Bambu nor their shills and fanboys understand that-: People bought a printer that could do both: Use the cloud and manage it at home or use Orca/Panda,etc.
Now they have to choose one of the sides.
And this is a major flaw - legally speaking it is a major malfunction.
We will see how this ends up.
I’m pretty sure I was successful with putting both my Bambu printers on LAN mode and setting up my router to block their connection to the internet before potentially unknowingly updating to this garbage firmware version. We’ll see, definitely not buying another Bambu for the foreseeable future. I bet Prusa is pretty happy about this decision from Bambu.
Did you just block the device by mac? Or only specific endpoints?
I blocked it using my router’s GUI, I imagine it goes by the MAC address but I’m not sure.
If you did update, you should be able to rollback
Someone on youtube (possibly Louis Rossman) said that they made it so you couldn’t revert back but I don’t know whether or not that’s true.
What’s the latest firmware version that shittifies these printers? I have an a1 mini with version 1.4
Might be worth grabbing a copy of 1.3 and seeing if you can force a downgrade, since 1.4 released earlier the same month. No idea how far back the premeditation goes on this.
I’ll be doing the same.
Let me know if you find the 1.03 firmware version as I can’t seem to find it anywhere on their site. The latest for the a1 mini is 1.04 and it was released on December 10th.
If you find 1.03 please post it in here! :)
