As the main page of the forum says: feature request have to go into a Github issue.

Please open a feature request on Github https://github.com/maziggy/bambuddy/issues.

Hi everyone,

When the Bambuddy Appliance launched, the website and the announcement called it an "annual subscription". That wording was confusing, and many of you read it as "pay every year or your box stops working". That was never how it worked, but explaining it badly is on me, not on you. I'm sorry for the confusion and the frustration it caused.

Your feedback also made me rethink the model itself. So from today, the appliance is sold differently.

The new pricing

	Price	What you get
Personal	€79 once ($89 + sales tax)	12 months of appliance updates and support. Non-commercial use.
Lifetime	€199 once ($219 + sales tax)	Every appliance update for as long as the appliance is developed, plus 12 months of support. Non-commercial use.
Business	€249 per year ($279 + sales tax)	Commercial use. Updates and support while subscribed, a direct email line, requests handled first, a response time in writing.

Personal and Lifetime include VAT; Business is plus VAT.

What "after the first year" means

• You buy it once and it's yours. The appliance keeps working exactly as it is, indefinitely. Nothing is switched off or locked.
• After the first year of Personal, Bambuddy itself still updates from the admin panel, and Debian security updates keep coming. What stops is updates to the appliance layer (admin panel, setup wizard, update tooling) and support.
• Want every appliance update for good? That's Lifetime. A Personal appliance can be upgraded later, just write to support@bambuddy.cool.

What doesn't change

• Bambuddy stays free and open source (AGPL). The appliance runs the very same Bambuddy, with no features behind a paywall.
• If you'd rather set it up yourself, the Docker install costs nothing and always will.
• Support: Personal and Lifetime through GitHub issues, Business by email. Questions about your key, an order or a refund go to support@bambuddy.cool, whatever you bought.

Already bought one?

If you bought the appliance under the old annual wording, you've been moved to Lifetime at no extra cost, and your subscription won't renew.

All details: https://get.bambuddy.cool/#pricing

Thank you for the honest feedback. It stung a bit, and it made this better.

Martin

H2D: OrcaSlicer nightly files fail with "Filament Track Switch offline"

If your H2D has no Filament Track Switch and you slice with the OrcaSlicer 2.5.0 nightly, prints fail about 2 minutes in with:
0700-7400 The Filament Track Switch is offline.
0700-8029 This print requires a Filament Track Switch, but it is currently offline.

This happens whether you print from Bambuddy or straight from OrcaSlicer. The nightly tells the printer to load the filament into the opposite nozzle, which only the switch could do. We confirmed it on our own H2D: the same plate sliced in Bambu Studio prints fine with the same AMS slot.

Workaround: slice H2D jobs with Bambu Studio or a stable OrcaSlicer release until the fix is merged. If a print already failed, cancel it on the printer and re-slice.

Bambuddy issue: https://github.com/maziggy/bambuddy/issues/3220
OrcaSlicer issue and fix: https://github.com/OrcaSlicer/OrcaSlicer/issues/15927 / https://github.com/OrcaSlicer/OrcaSlicer/pull/15929

Need to look into it more detailed. Please open an Github issue and attach a support-package.

Need to look into it more detailed. Please open a feature request.

Looking for help

Anyone using Shopify to sell printed parts? Please drop me a DM. Thanks!

What do you actually want from Bambuddy?

Honest admission: I don't get much time to use Bambuddy myself these days - nearly all my printing time goes into building it. So my sense of what's missing comes from issues, from this server, and from guessing. I'd rather hear it from you.

Two questions. Answer either, or both.

1. The top three things you'd want next.
Not a full wishlist - the three that would change your day. A missing feature, a workflow that's rough, something you keep doing by hand, a tab you keep switching to. Concrete beats abstract: "I want X so I can stop doing Y" tells me far more than "better queue management". If it's already a GitHub issue, drop the number - votes there count: https://github.com/maziggy/bambuddy/issues

2. Where do you see Bambuddy in a year?
Is it the thing you leave open on a second screen? The thing that runs the farm while you're not looking? A spool database with printers attached? Something that should stay small and do less? I'm curious where you think this is heading, including if that's somewhere I'm not steering it.

No promises attached to this thread - I'm collecting signal, not publishing a roadmap. But what keeps coming up here is usually what ends up getting built.

This should go into a feature request on Github.

H2-series and P2S: incomplete archives when printing from Bambu Studio

If you own an H2C, H2D or P2S and your archived prints show a name and
timing but no thumbnail, filament usage or cost, here is what is
happening and what to do about it.

Bambuddy reads a print's 3MF off the printer over FTP on port 990. On
every Bambu model that port serves external storage only - the SD card
or USB stick. It is not a view of the printer's whole filesystem.

Bambu Studio's Print button sends sliced files to the printer's internal
memory on the newer generation, so there is no file on the card for
Bambuddy to read. Measured with the same Studio, the same model file and
three printers a minute apart, all with a stick inserted and "Store sent
files on external storage" enabled:

H2C -> brtc://emmc/<name> archive: name and timing only
H2D -> brtc://emmc/<name> archive: name and timing only
X1C -> ftp://<name> archive: complete

The printer-side toggle does not influence this in either direction. I
also verified the reverse: turning it off changed nothing.

What works

1. Start the print from Bambuddy. It uploads to the card itself, so the
   archive is complete on every model.
2. Slice in OrcaSlicer. It always uploads over FTP. It will refuse to
   send with an empty slot rather than silently using internal memory.
3. Stay in Bambu Studio: use Send with External selected, then start the
   print from the printer screen, from Handy, or from Studio's device
   page. The storage picker exists only in Send; Print offers no choice.

All three need a card or stick in the printer. X1 and P1 series are
unaffected - Studio already uses external storage there.

Can the internal copy be recovered?

No. The printer will list what is in its internal storage but refuses to
serve those files back, so a print already sent there cannot be archived
after the fact.

One bug of mine, fixed in the next daily

Starting a print from a file already on the printer - a reprint from the
touchscreen, from Handy, or the Send-then-print flow above - was being
treated as internal storage since 14 August, so Bambuddy stopped looking
even when the file was sitting on the card. That affected every model.
If you have seen empty archives on an X1 or P1 in the last few days,
this was the cause.

Wiki: https://wiki.bambuddy.cool/reference/troubleshooting/#archive-card-has-only-a-name
Upstream issue: https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/issues/10481

Sorry, to less information to get an idea what's happening. Please open an issue and attach a support package (https://wiki.bambuddy.cool/features/system-info/?h=debug#enable-debug-logging)

What does "I can't add the virtual printer" mean? Is there any error message?

Stop it and delete the install folder.

Please open an issue on Github.

I cannot answer your question because I don't know your desired workflow.

BTW: [FQDN]? Are you running a reverse proxy? Looks like a service is not running or connecting to the wrong host.