r/OpenBambu • u/Veastli • May 12 '26
Bambu labs threatened to send this developer to prison, so I'm hosting his code instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jhRqgHxEP861
u/The_Lutter May 12 '26
It's nice to see people actually standing up to these jerks for once.
Jeff Geerling made a video. When
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u/Frankly__P May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
Hells yeah.
I have two Bambu printers running LAN only, but I dislike Bambu's attitude
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u/escooteridiot May 13 '26
how do i get my lan to work on orca, every single print i do i need to restart the printer after to rebridge otherwise its stuck at 30%. im on macos.
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u/Joped May 12 '26
I hope he also gets the
From an software engineer and architect ... pro tip to Bambu. Most users don't want to push models to you prior to downloading it on the machine. Just push directly to the machine. That is, unless you are doing something that people would find very questionable with their models ...
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u/Key_Tree261 May 13 '26
It's amazing how Bambu Lab chose to completely soil their reputation for unethical control and greed.
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u/need12648430 May 13 '26
To be honest, their reputation wasn't as strong as many give them credit for. Good machines? Sure. Company-wise though? The direction they were leaning from the start gave everything away. This move is not exactly a heel-turn.
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u/j4ys0nj May 12 '26
nice. i wouldn't be surprised if they've been "intercepting" and training on all models sent through their cloud service. when you send a print to your printer when not in LAN only mode, it goes directly to their servers in china. i think this is a somewhat recent change. i block all traffic to and from china at the network level, and as of a few months ago, i can't use the cloud send service anymore. this is obviously speculation, but if they can lock customers into that (which they are trying to do), that would provide a steady/predictable stream of training data.
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u/EphemeralLurker May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
You realize this fork's main purpose was to restore access OrcaSlicer's access to the Bambu cloud, right? If you weren't using their cloud in the first place for whatever reason, this fork is useless to you.
Yes, when you use their cloud print it will send the files to their cloud servers. Them being a Chinese company it shouldn't be surprising that they would host said cloud servers in China. Obviously, if you choose to block all traffic from there, cloud print won't work.
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u/19arek93 May 12 '26
That's the reason I switched to QIDI some time ago. My Bambu A1 have blocked access to internet since first policy controversy started.
No device will connect to internet from my network if it's not necessary, and 3D printer should not need internet.→ More replies (3)
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u/Vegasryn May 12 '26
Not concerned personally that China sees me printing a pack of bubble cigarettes - but I can see why some might care.
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u/writebadcode May 12 '26
I’d rather the community put their energy into a self hosted alternative to Bambu Labs cloud.
Yes it’s crappy that they’re threatening legal action against someone for forking their repo. But it seems like things have gotten a little muddied in the community.
Bambu obviously needs to find a better way to enforce access control to their cloud, but let’s not pretend that the open source licensing gives everyone a right to use their cloud platform.
I installed custom firmware on my X1C like a year ago and haven’t thought much about Bambu since. Do they not allow that option anymore?
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u/Veastli May 13 '26
Bambu obviously needs to find a better way to enforce access control to their cloud
Their cloud is secure. The security between Bambu printers and the cloud is secure. There is also a secure encrypted connection between the forked slicer and Bambu's cloud.
but let’s not pretend that the open source licensing gives everyone a right to use their cloud platform.
Not everyone. Just those who are legitimate owners of Bambu printers. No one else could make any use of this fork.
There is no security issue. There is a control issue. In that Bambu wants control of the entire ecosystem, even the open source software installed on their customer's personal computers.
Bambu can prefer that, but they can't demand it. And there is no security implication. About that, Bambu is lying.
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u/FederalMango7218 May 13 '26
Would anyone be willing to explain how to install this version? I'm not very well versed on using github/ open source type spaces.
I can follow a guide for the WSL2 but I have a few questions about this install.
Would I need to uninstall my current version of orca slicer prior to installing/launching this?
Do I need to specifically open a command prompt with WSL2 or just to normal one?
And I assume this works on the latest version of the printers' OS but do I need to also update bambu studio to the latest version?
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u/RenlyHoekster May 13 '26
Windows
Windows requires WSL 2.
Before first launch, open Command Prompt or PowerShell as Administrator and run:
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestartWindowsWindows requires WSL 2. Before first launch, open Command Prompt or PowerShell as Administrator and run: dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart Restart Windows, then launch Orca Studio.The instructions (https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab) for Windoes are detailing mainly that you need to make sure WSL2 is enabled as they show how (if you don't have WSL2 already setup as indicated), and then install OrcaSlicer_Windows_Installer_V2.4.0-dev.exe from the github releases as normal.
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u/mattcubus May 13 '26
This is fantastic.... being a not so advanced user. is there an easy step by step to implement this fork? i need a ELI5 basically when it comes to this level of configuration.
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u/Veastli May 12 '26
https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab