[jjkaczor]

The installation of X1Plus had to be the most easy, fluid and professional third-party firmware deployment I have EVER done.

The ONLY pain points were the interactions with Bambu - first the authorization pages where you have to request using 3rd-party firmware kept cycling through their warnings and acceptances (trick to complete was opening the link using "Incognito/In Private" session), next you have to either upgrade to latest official firmware (if you are not there), then jump through several downgrades to get to the rootable version of the firmware using the "Bambu Handy" app.

So far, so great - 36+ hrs printing, no issues. I have now got it fully working in LAN-mode. Home Assistant dashboard setup - but there is also someone working on a "Bambu Companion" phone app (it's in a TestFlight open beta) - which works well in the local LAN, and if you configure a secure tunnel through your router (Wireguard, Tailscale, OpenVPN, etc.), it works perfectly remotely as well.

My only complaint with LAN-mode is that both Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer "forget" the printer when the software is closed - they don't forget the "binding", so it is a "1-click" process to re-add to the Device tab, but it is a little bit of a hassle.