Bambu Lab released Farm Manager as a public beta in May, I believe and it looks like it would be helpful for us to manage our A1 printers and track usage. I want to see
- if this is actually a useful tool for our use cases
- how we could go about integrating authentication and authorisation with our existing LDAP directory
- does this expose APIs that we can potentially integrate into tools like BitBot
- there are already ways we can programmatically access the printers, but all of these rely on using the LAN access code which is ephemeral / can be changed in the printer's control interface, meaning that we lose connection if that gets changed
In a perfect world, it would be awesome to be able to let people print from their own machines again if they were connected to Makerspace members SSID, had their trainings completed, and had the Bambu farm manager client installed on their machines.
So this is just an exploratory issue to figure out if we can make this work well for our use case.
See https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/software/bambu-farm-manager for more info about the tool and how to deploy it. As of the time of my writing this issue, it only runs on Windows, so we'd probably need to provision a Windows virtual machine of some sort on one of our hosts to run Farm Manager Server
Bambu Lab released Farm Manager as a public beta in May, I believe and it looks like it would be helpful for us to manage our A1 printers and track usage. I want to see
In a perfect world, it would be awesome to be able to let people print from their own machines again if they were connected to Makerspace members SSID, had their trainings completed, and had the Bambu farm manager client installed on their machines.
So this is just an exploratory issue to figure out if we can make this work well for our use case.
See https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/software/bambu-farm-manager for more info about the tool and how to deploy it. As of the time of my writing this issue, it only runs on Windows, so we'd probably need to provision a Windows virtual machine of some sort on one of our hosts to run Farm Manager Server