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Comment by jamestimmins | Hacker News Reader

What is their bait and switch behavior? I'm not familiar with anything shady they've done but am very curious as I've had my eye on a Bambu.

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They pushed a firmware update which blocked direct use of your printer without using their proprietary “Bambu Connect” application - because ‘security’.

Mind clarifying how that's bad? It sounds just like a driver or something similar.

Authorization through bambulab servers.

Also probably AGPL infringement, since the slicer is a fork of priser slicer which is AGPL, and you can't build the slicer from source, because if you could, then you could use the binary plugin for communicating with the printer in other slicers -- but you can't.

It's pretty blatant IMO.

But it's also a printer that just works.

LAN mode still works on my A1 & I can access it from Orca Slicer just fine.

Same on my P1S. LAN mode doesn't even attempt to call home at all either, I've checked my logs. And even if you're super paranoid you can always walk an SD Card to the printer.

I've been unable to connect Orca Slicer to my A1 mini over LAN and I'm led to believe that as a result of that firmware update it is impossible. It's possible something else went wrong and I just gave up because of a misunderstanding I guess?

Are you sure you aren't just running older firmware (my A1 mini is a recent acquisition)?

https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/knowledge-sharing/enable-develo...

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