joel-sgc/bamboomobile

BambooMobile is a mobile app for controlling Bambu Lab 3D printers directly over your home network, without needing a Bambu account or their cloud service at all. It is built with Tauri, which pairs a Rust backend with a React and TypeScript frontend, and currently targets Android phones. The author is upfront that the app was built almost entirely by an AI coding assistant and that they do not personally know Rust, and asks that people either contribute fixes or fork it rather than complain. The project frames itself around the right to repair: Bambu Lab printers technically work over the local network, but the official app and tools route everything through Bambu's cloud servers anyway, meaning an account is required and connectivity problems or company decisions can get in the way of using hardware you already own. BambooMobile instead talks straight to the printer using the same open, community documented protocols that other independent tools already rely on, so print data never has to leave the local network. Features include a live camera feed from the printer, print progress with layer counts and time remaining, nozzle and bed temperature readouts, chamber light control, four print speed modes, pause and resume and stop controls, per slot filament and humidity information from Bambu's AMS system, manual jog controls for moving the print head and bed, and login credentials that are stored securely in the app rather than in browser storage. Building it requires Rust with the Android build tools, Node.js, the pnpm package manager, and the Tauri command line tool. On first launch the app asks for the printer's IP address, access code, and serial number, then remembers them. The project documents the raw camera and messaging protocols it uses in the readme for anyone else who wants to build on top of it, and is released under the AGPL-3.0 license, meaning any modified version must also stay open source.