Show HN: BamBuddy – a self-hosted print archive for Bambu Lab 3D printers
A self-hosted print archive and management system for Bambu Lab 3D printers. Monitor your fleet, archive prints, schedule jobs - all without cloud dependency.
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Bambu makes great hardware, but your data lives in their cloud and there's no way to export it. When a print finishes, the job is basically gone from any useful record-keeping perspective.
BamBuddy fixes that by running on your own machine and tapping into the printer's local MQTT interface — so it captures everything as it happens: thumbnails, filament usage, timing, slicer settings. You end up with a fully searchable archive of your print history that's entirely yours, works offline, and never touches Bambu's servers.
The catch: their local API is undocumented, so a lot of the early work was reverse-engineering the protocol. That's still ongoing as firmware updates occasionally break things.
Stack: TypeScript, self-hosted, ~700 stars, small but active contributor community.
GitHub: https://github.com/maziggy/bambuddy Docs: https://wiki.bambuddy.cool
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