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===Reduced home-automation capabilities===
===Reduced home-automation capabilities===
While basic status monitoring remains available (e.g., print-progress updates in Home Assistant), the new firmware removes the ability for home-automation systems to control printer functions. Users can no longer:
While basic status monitoring remains available (e.g., print-progress updates in Home Assistant), the new firmware removes the ability for home-automation systems to control printer functions. Users can no longer:
*Start or stop prints remotely using Home Assistant, BTT Panda Touch,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=@BIGTREETECH |date=2025-01-17 |title=<nowiki>Dear Users, Recently Bambu announced some significant changes to how authorization will work with some of their coming firmware updates for the X series (X1, X1C, X1E) of their printers. We want to use this post to explain how it will affect the Panda Touch and how you can still retain full functionality.
*Start or stop prints remotely using Home Assistant, BTT Panda Touch,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=@BIGTREETECH |date=2025-01-17 |title=BIGTREETECH's post |url=https://www.facebook.com/BIGTREETECH/posts/pfbid0SNZGxvf7NRdmyVgHf6y9yNedNbU2RrCfdT8gugTSD4AYfr5BHneNF9H1EbwyYiJEl |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251004104021/https://www.facebook.com/BIGTREETECH/posts/pfbid0SNZGxvf7NRdmyVgHf6y9yNedNbU2RrCfdT8gugTSD4AYfr5BHneNF9H1EbwyYiJEl |archive-date=2025-10-04 |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=[[Facebook]]}}</ref> or other third-party accessories or software interfaces
The announcement in question can be read here: https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing.../ Below is a bullet point list of the key points and implications from this announcement: - The new authorization control system will be rolled out to the X range of printers on the 23rd of January 2025. - No mention is made of an exact release schedule for the P and A series printers. - The new authorization method will likely limit the control available to third party devices and software on all X series machines. This includes software like Home Assistant, Orca Slicer and the Panda Touch. - A and P series machines will retain full third party software and device control until Bambu release a similar firmware update for those machines. - The firmware updates are optional and any users who wish to retain third party device or software control can choose not to perform the update. - We have reached out to Bambu to try and obtain more information and we will keep users updated as Bambu provides feedback that is approved for public release. Our recommendation is to remain on your current firmware so that you can retain the use of the Panda Touch until we have more clarity about the situation. Sincerely, The BIQU/BIGTREETECH team.</nowiki> |url=https://www.facebook.com/BIGTREETECH/posts/pfbid0SNZGxvf7NRdmyVgHf6y9yNedNbU2RrCfdT8gugTSD4AYfr5BHneNF9H1EbwyYiJEl |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251004104021/https://www.facebook.com/BIGTREETECH/posts/pfbid0SNZGxvf7NRdmyVgHf6y9yNedNbU2RrCfdT8gugTSD4AYfr5BHneNF9H1EbwyYiJEl |archive-date=2025-10-04 |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=[[Facebook]]}}</ref> or other third-party accessories or software interfaces
*Control printer temperatures or cooling
*Control printer temperatures or cooling
*Automate printer behaviors based on sensor data or events
*Automate printer behaviors based on sensor data or events
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*The requirement to manually export and import files through Bambu Connect creates additional labor
*The requirement to manually export and import files through Bambu Connect creates additional labor
*Integration with existing business systems and workflows becomes more difficult or impossible
*Integration with existing business systems and workflows becomes more difficult or impossible
*Professional users with more than 20 printers report the new workflow as "an absolute nightmare"<ref>{{Cite web |last=@drakko |date=16 Jan 2025 |title=Oh, the beta version. Luckily, I don’t allow new firmware on my machine, not until I see multiple validations from trustworthy users. So, in this respect I’m safe. Also, I never trust a beta version, no matter how reliable the releaser is. Thx for the clarification @Square3D . Appreciated. |url=https://forum.bambulab.com/t/this-new-auth-system-will-make-me-sell-my-printers/135400/4 |url-status=live |access-date=1 May 2025 |website=Bambu Lab Community Forum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260223033245/https://forum.bambulab.com/t/this-new-auth-system-will-make-me-sell-my-printers/135400/4 |archive-date=23 Feb 2026}}</ref>
*Professional users with more than 20 printers report the new workflow as "an absolute nightmare"<ref>{{Cite web |last=@drakko |date=16 Jan 2025 |title=This new auth system will make me sell my printers |url=https://forum.bambulab.com/t/this-new-auth-system-will-make-me-sell-my-printers/135400/3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/yVBw8 |archive-date=2026-03-30 |access-date=1 May 2025 |website=Bambu Lab Community Forum |quote=Oh, the beta version. Luckily, I don’t allow new firmware on my machine, not until I see multiple validations from trustworthy users. So, in this respect I’m safe. Also, I never trust a beta version, no matter how reliable the releaser is.
Thx for the clarification @Square3D . Appreciated.}}</ref>
The solution to the above is not to sign the printer into the cloud. Keeping the printer signed in would be a security oversight in this use case on the part of the print farm.
The solution to the above is not to sign the printer into the cloud. Keeping the printer signed in would be a security oversight in this use case on the part of the print farm.


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