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Bambu Labs to implement an authorization and authentication protection mechanism

DavidR8 said:
blog.bambulab.com

Firmware Update Introducing New Authorization Control System

Launching first for X Series printers, with P and A Series updates planned for future release
blog.bambulab.com

Reddit has an excellent post on the development:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1i3gq1t/why_you_should_care_about_bambu_labs_removing
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well this is a huge issue and will likely sway me not to buy a bambu printer.

all the really cool stuff and cutting edge slicing and dicing features are third party application and special scripts. If they implement this bambu connect it may s limit or curtail my options.
 
TorontoBuilder said:
well this is a huge issue and will likely sway me not to buy a bambu printer.

all the really cool stuff and cutting edge slicing and dicing features are third party application and special scripts. If they implement this bambu connect it may s limit or curtail my options.
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Coming closely on the heels of my Anycubic purchase, it confirms my purchase choice.
That said I've already thought about closed environments and how I'd react. My first action would be to rip out the proprietary tech (MCU board primarily) and move to Klipper/Mainsail.
 
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Bambu has said this in the Official Bambu FB group:
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Good thing I'm still on the fence. Got tired of playing with 3D printers years ago and sold all my stuff peak Covid. I just want to use a printer to print stuff now, kinda like how I moved from a homebrew CNC mill to a commercially made (albeit hobby grade) unit - it just works.
That said, I'm not a big fan of sending all my stuff to the cloud, and the Bambu ecosystem of less functionality without the cloud is one factor holding me back from getting their stuff. Its like I can see the CEO's frothing at the mouth with anticipation of the money they will make when they start charging a subscription fee for those cloud services that are not intrinsic to the printer. Same business model as Fusion 360 - give them something for free, corner the market, and then start charging for it.
We are slowly becoming less and less in control of the things we buy, never mind right to repair.
This BS that the cloud is necessary for everything is a horrible lie and just smoke to have more hooks into our data and wallets.
 
I need to do more investigation on the Anycubic I have on order to see if/how cloud dependent it is.
I know with the Bambu you can connect directly but you lose the app functionality, remote monitoring and control which frankly is a big deal to me.
 
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I kind of heard rumblings of this from a 3DP friend before committing to the A1. I was hoping to mitigate cloud bouncing in any event. But now that I've had it for a couple weeks, I do understand the advantages of printing & monitoring remotely. Anyway he said (guessed) SD card mode may be OK & that's ultimately what I may be boxed into if I don't have decent WiFi in shop. So fingers crossed. Maybe I'll hold off trying to set it set up wireless/app till the dust settles.

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