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For the current range of Bambu Printers (P1P\X1-Carbon). If you store your files in the cloud and initiate a print through the phone app to the printer using wifi, what happens to the print if the printer loses wifi connectivity for an extended period of time during the printing process and is unable to recover it?

For example, if you are 1 hour into a 5 hour print will it continue to print as normal until the print is complete using a cached copy of the file that it downloaded during that first hour, but without app connectivity.

Or will it simply stop and wait for the user to perform a corrective action.

Aaargh Zombies
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I recently bought a Bambu P1S and can confirm it will continue to print when Internet connectivity is lost, the complete file is downloaded to the internal SD card. Also I had an occasion where the Bambu servers were offline for a while so I couldn't start a new print so decided to try the "LAN Only" mode and that worked fine on my local network where my PC is on the same subnet as the printer, so that's also wotth a try if your Internet is somewhat unreliable.

While researching the LAN Only mode I found some complaints the camera view wasn't available, but that works fine for me so I assume a recently software / firmware update has added that feature. The only downsides seem to be automatic firmware upgrades obviously don't occur with only LAN access, plus you won't be able to use the phone app to view the camera / receive notifications.

PeterJ
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