🚀 Announcing OctoEverywhere For Bambu Lab 3D Printers

I'm very intrigued of the live webcam, is this a public feature or a demo?

Thanks! :)

Love you project! But my Homeassistant integration does all of this already. Is there any killer feature that should have people moving over to OA?

Something I just though of now: is there any possibility, now or in the future, for OctoEverywhere to control Bambu part cooling fans? It's a significant issue for many people, including me. If you manually turn down the part cooling fan it turns itself back up whenever it changes in gcode, even if you're printing at 50% speed in silent mode. If OctoEverywhere had a button that said "every second, send a command to set the part cooling fan to X percent" that'd be fucking incredible. I'd pay money for that.

Hiding the cost is misleading.

I’m sure it’s been asked, but do you have screenshots or a demo for print farm use cases where multiple printers can be selected from to view? Or even possibly a grid of multiple/all printers at a time?

Thank you for letting me know! It seems my home internet has picked a bad day to be flakey, I'm going to call my ISP and see if they can help!

Great question! All OctoEverywhere features work in both LAN-only modes, enabled or disabled.

If you want to augment Bambu Cloud with OctoEverywhere, you can leave LAN-only mode off. Or if you want to disconnect from Bambu Cloud, you can enable LAN-only mode and still use everything in OctoEverywhere!

There's no explicit AMS support right now, but that's something I want to add in the future. I would love to hear your feedback, what features of the AMS would you want to control over OctoEverywhere?

My question exactly. Definitely worth a shot if it could access the vids on the memory card in LAN only mode.

Tell me more about this home assistant setup

That's wonderful feedback! I'm working on updating that limit right now. I'm curious to hear your feedback, what would a better limit be for you?

My goal with OctoEverywhere is that any "average 3D printing maker" can use the service 100% for free and not hit any limits. Users who want a little more can get Supporter Perks, which are $3.49/month, and extra features. OctoEverywhere is 100% community-funded; the Supporter Perks cover the hosting, development, and other business costs.

There's a free and a paid version?

OP left that little tidbit out of these post.

By limiting festures for the free version

https://octoeverywhere.com/supporter?source=help_supporter

there is a subscription model, free plan has limited features.

Great question! OctoEverywhere is 100% community-funded by a subscription model I call Supporter Perks.

My goal with OctoEveyrwhere is that any "average 3D printing user" can use OctoEverywhere 100% for free and not hit any limits. If you're a power user or want to help support the project, you can get the Supporter Perks for $3.99/month. With Supporter Perks, you get higher limits since you're helping to pay for the project.

I try to keep the limits as high as I can and only have them around things that cost the service a lot to operate. As the Supporter Perks funds increase for the project, I also increase the limits for free and supporter accounts.

Yes! You can run a mix of any pritners and see them all on your OctoEverywhere dashboard. I for example have:

• Bambu X1 - Running Bambu Connect
• Bambu P1s - Running Bambu Connect
• Ender 3 v3 - Running OctoEverywhere For Klipper
• Creality K1 - Running OctoEverywhere For Klipper
• Prusa MK3s - Running OctoEverywhere for OctoPrint

Most of those printers I have for developing the plugin and testing future updates. I use my Bambus and K1 the most.

Yes. I ran it out of proxmox so you shouldn't have any issues from unraid.

You can run Bambu Connect on any Debian-based Linux system. I'm not sure what UnRaid runs, but if it's Debian-based, yes! You could also explore running Bambu Connect in a VM or docker container.

I want to ship the plugin in a docker container, but I haven't seen enough demand for it yet, and it would take a decent amount of work. But having a docker container would make it even more universal.

octoeverywhere looks to be running its regular python version with just install.sh with -bambu arguments. so assuming there is a docker for octoeverywhere, or a generic one that has python then you should be able to use that docker image for unraid.

if you ever figure out how this could work, please let us know. I'd like to not have it installed on another machine that runs all the time, haha

Seems to be

Thank you! I work really hard on OctoEverywhere, and it's only a side project I run for the community, so it's great to hear the feedback.

For extra printers, you have set up unlimited printers, but there's a cost.

• Free accounts can have up to 3 printers.
• Supporter Perks account gets 5 printers included for $3.99/month, and then it's $1/printer/month after that. All of the printers on your account get all of your Supporter Perks benefits.

Right now you can't send jobs to printers via OctoEveywhere, but it's something I'm working on adding very soon!

There is no catch, just some limits! hahaha.

I wrote a longer comment with the answer here, but I will summarize it as well. OctoEverywhere is 100% community-funded. My goal with OctoEverywhere is that any "average 3D printing user" can use the service 100% for free with no limits. If you're an advanced user or want to support the project, you can get Supporter Perks for $3.99/month, which gives you higher limits.

Yes! The P1 and A1 series printers only stream at 0.5 frames per second, due to their hardware. That's one of the really neat features about OctoEverywhere's Bambu Connect, you can setup an external webcam using a raspberry pi or some other device, and get a full frame rate webcam stream!

For me, OctoEverywhere is just a side project I run for the community. I started it about 4 years ago, for remote access to OctoPrint. It has grown since, but I only have time to work on it on my nights and weekends. I don't think there are many other big players in the space; most of the others are smaller and medium-sized projects like OctoEverywhere.

Nice! The AI failure detection should work in any configuration, even with the door shut in some cases. In general, you want to have a clear, well-light view of the entire print for Gadget to work as well as it can.

Nope! The OctoEverywhere Bambu Connect plugin works with the built-in cameras from the X1, P1, or A1 printers out of the box. It will use the built-in camera for AI failure detection, notifications, Quick View, live streaming, and more.

You can optionally set up an external camera to get better streaming frame rates. When you have an external camera setup, you can choose to use the built-in camera or the extra camera for AI failure detection and all the rest.

Does that make sense?

From what my community has told me, AI failure detection generally works quite well. Gadget is trained on all kinds of different camera angles, so it can understand many setups quite well. But I do, from time to time, hear of some edge cases where Gadget doesn't perform well. In those cases, you can submit feedback, and that feedback is auto-compliant to retrain the model, so it's continuously learning!

So far, Bambu printers seem to do a great job, mostly, I think, because the lighting and camera placement are decent. But I would love for you to try it out and let me hear how it works for you!

Yes! It's on the roadmap, but it will take some time. The biggest problem is finding a balance between making the server self-hostable and adding features. The roadblock is that the servers create a mesh network across all of the global servers, which they use to make seamless remote access from anywhere experience and also for failover. The server can't work without being part of a mesh, so if you tried to self-host the server, it would be very sad and lonely.

Thank you! I do have a fully self-hostable server on my roadmap; it's just going to take a lot more work before I can get there. But keep an eye out, and hopefully, I will get to it soon!

Thank you! 🥰

Good question! I reached out to Bambu but didn't hear anything back yet. I'm using the same APIs that Home Assistant and similar systems use, which were called out in their blog post as approved use. So that should mean everything OctoEverywhere is doing is approved as well!

I started OctoEverywhere about 4 years ago, and it was initially only for OctoPrint. It has expanded from there to support all of the features and printer types it does now.

I can't predict the future, but we have been on a healthy path of a growing community and enough supporters to fund the project. I haven't had to lower limits since the creation of the project, but I have raised the limits on free accounts in the past because we have gotten enough support to allow it!

In my demo print it's sitting out side with the door open, but I think there are some community members trying to figure out the best way to mount a camera in the printer right now.

Yes! Give it a try and let me know what you think!

You can do it via CLI, or using the Docker webUI included with Synology.

I did it via the WebUI as follows:

Download octoeverywhere/octoeverywhere, create a new container, add the environment variables for your Bambu:

ACCESS_CODE=XXXXXXXX 
SERIAL_NUMBER=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
PRINTER_IP=X.X.X.X

Now add the folder map for /data, then start the container.

Once the container is up, watch the logs for the URL to add the printer to octoeverywhere.

Amazing! If you mean a stream from the built-in camera, I don't think it's possible with the P1 and A1. But if you mean an external webcam, it should be possible to use the same streaming URL Bambu Connect is using.

That's great feedback! If you want to share, can you give me more info about what you think looks like a sales funnel?

About the design, I'm the only developer on the project, and I'm a C++ guy. HTML and CSS are my worst languages, and I'm really bad at design. hahaha So I try to keep it simple and keep it something that works well on both desktop and mobile. I do optimize the website for the desktop, but I don't have the skills or time to do anything more crazy.

Thanks! Can you open a support ticket and send a screenshot so I can look into it?

https://octoeverywhere.com/suppport

Yes, you're correct. There are no apps that support Bambu Lab printers right now, so you have to use the web. But, you can add OctoEverywhere to your home screen, and then it will act just like an app!

No problem! I'm very excited to see the communities reaction!

Thank you!

Thank you! I did create a device that for some reason can only read your mind. But it inspired me to do this! 🤪

Great question! You can use it alongside Bambu Studio! OctoEverywhere adds more features on top of what you already get from Bambu Studio, Cloud, or Handy. If you checkout the website, there's a list of unique features to OctoEverywhere at the bottom that will give you some idea.

https://octoeverywhere.com/bambu

Hmm. Normally, yes, you can share hardware. If you have a Raspberry Pi running Klipper, then you could install multiple OctoEverywhere for Klipper and OctoEverywhere Bambu Connect plugins on the same device. But the Sonic Pad is a restricted OS running on not super-powerful hardware, so I don't think you can run Bambu Connect on it.

It depends on the printer and the device hardware. The P1 and A1 printers require way less in terms of CPU, so you can run more plugins per device. The X1 is more demanding on the CPU due to its webcam stream.

The Pi Zero is powerful but still limited. I would guess you could do one or two Bambu Connect plugins for an A1 or P1 on it. If you had something like a Pi 4 or P5, you could run upwards of 10 Bambu Connect plugins for an A1 or P1, and maybe 3-4 for the X1.

That's great feedback! I haven't seen any issues in Bambu Studio with the webcam stream; for me, both OctoEverywhere and the Bambu apps work with no issue. I will look into it; if you figure out any steps to reproduce the issue, let me know!

Thanks for the feedback! I haven't heard of Pop! Before, it did sound like the virtual environment might be the issue. The installer will try to make a virtual PY env for the plugin to run, but if that goes wrong, the plugin won't run properly.

There's nothing yet beyond the Bambu Handy app and the OctoEverywhere website for app support. But the OctoEverywhere website can be installed as a PWA, which means you can "install it" as an app on your Home Screen, and then it will act just like an app. That works on both iOS and Android.

Amazing! Please try out the project and let me know what you think!

The plugin is 100% open source and I want the server to be soon as well, but it's not currently.

OctoEverywhere is a project I run for the community in my spare time; I have a full-time job as well. It's 100% community funded and the project has been growing well, as long as the funding stays healthy the project will stay free and unlimited! As the project gets more funding, I have actually been raising the limits that exist, so it's even more free and more unlimited. :D

Yes! OctoEverywhere has a feature allowing you to add webcams to your printer for remote monitoring, control, AI failure detection, notification, etc. The external webcam will stream at its full resolution and full framerate, so you will get a smooth, real-time webcam view of your printer!

You can switch back and forth between the built-in Bambu camera and the external cam. You can also choose which to use as a default. The default camera will be used for AI failure detection, notification, etc.

No, it won't let you do a timelapse because the software doesn't support it. You could set up a webcam using some other software that does timelapse videos and then also connect that to OctoEverywhere.

But you could make Live Links, which allow you to share real-time streams of your print with live stats. You live links can also include social links to your profiles!

Here's a demo link of my live P1S running right now:

https://octoeverywhere.com/live/tkrlcCHtoM

Thank you! I really appreciate that. I'm a systems developer at my day job and I write all C++ code. HTML, JS, and design are my weakest skills, so I'm glad that the website at least meets the bar! 😆

Sorry about that! I will try to make the website as simple and clear as possible and work on it. Basically, OctoEverywhere is a way to add powerful cloud tools to your printers. It supports OctoPrint, Klipper, and Bambu Lab printers. The project offers remote access & control, AI print failure detection, print notifications, live streaming, and more.

For most OctoPrint and Klipper printers, you can install the plugin directly on the device. For Bambu Lab printers, you need to use another device on your local network to run the plugin. Usually, people use Raspberry Pi devices, but you can use any computer running Debain-based Linux. The Bambu Connect plugin connects to your home printers via the network, so it doesn't have to be physically by them.

Let me know if that's clear and if you have any other questions!

Great questions!

1) Bambu Connect runs on an independent device. Most people use Raspberry Pi, but it can be any Debian-based Linux OS. You can also run Bambu Connect on existing setups, like devices running OctoPrint, Klipper, Home Assistant, etc. Bambu Connect connects to your printer over your home network, so it doesn't need to physically connect to your printer.

2) I had no idea there was an OctoPrint plugin for that! I searched the OctoPrint plugin installer and didn't see it, but I will look into it more. Thanks for letting me know!

3) you can use the internal cameras on the A1, P1, or X1 for OctoEverywhere, or set up your own camera. Whatever you choose, either the internet camera or the camera you add can be used for AI failure detection, remote streaming, notifications, etc.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

It's possible to integrate with OrcaSlicer, but as of now, it's implemented. The Bambu Connect plugin's device and the printer need to be on the same LAN, but any other device you're using to connect to OctoEverywhere doesn't have to be.

Haha, the P1S is an amazing printer; it's never too late to buy one!

There isn't an addon right now, but as long as you can SSH into the device, you should be able to run the install script.

Amazing! It’s a great way to see all of your printers in one place!

That's a great question! Not right now, but I will try to add that soon!

Amazing!! Thanks for sharing your feedback!

There’s a uninstall script in the repo root you can run to clean things up!

Amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Good question. Gadget is trained on hundreds of thousands of 3D printing images on all printer types. Some are Bambu printers, but the majority are not. But users can send feedback for both good and bad detections, so the data set including Bambu printers will increase over time.

That said, in general, the model performs well on all printers. Since it’s trained from all different angles, lighting conditions, nozzle types, filaments, etc, the model doesn’t really care about the printer type. That makes the model really powerful, because if a new printer comes out or some user has a unique Voron, it just works.

That’s odd. Can you open a support ticket and send me your logs?

I think Home Assistant has docker running that you can use, right? If so, try to the docker image.

https://blog.octoeverywhere.com/setup-bambu-connect-with-docker-or-docker-compose/

That didn’t used to be the case, Bambu just changed something in the new firmware to break the connection. I’m working on fixing it now.

Thank you so much for the in depth and wonder feedback! I’m glad it’s working for you, I would love to hear more feedback after you use it more!

Hey! I’m happy to help, do you want to open a support ticket so we can get logs?

https://octoeverywhere.com/support

Yes!

Can you send me your logs? I can take a look!