Toggle to inform Bambu Studio of a P1P that was upgraded to a P1S via the official upgrade kit

[adam2104]

I recently upgraded my P1P to a P1S using the official upgrade kit sold in the Bambu Store. However, Bambu Studio still sees the printer as a P1P (as expected). This prevents me from using the P1S filament/printing presets which have different temperature and cooling properties than the P1P's presets.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great if there was some way to inform Bambu Studio that my P1P has been upgraded to P1S capabilities so as to unlock the P1S printing and filament presets / profiles. Perhaps this could be done with a setting in the machine profile?

Describe alternatives you've considered
I tried just using the P1S profile in Bambu Studio but it displays a warning about incorrect g-code when attempting to send a print to the printer. I also tried creating user-made presets with the parameters matching the system presets but this is tedious, prone to error, and won't receive automatic updates like the stock presets.

[RyanEwen]

Would be even better if there was the option to flash the P1S firmware. Alternatively a toggle in the P1P firmware settings menu to mark it as upgraded to P1S.

This way every first-party tool (Bambu Studio, Bambu Handy) and third-party tool (things that use MQTT like Home Assistant P1Touch, etc) can automatically determine P1P vs P1S rather than each having some kind of workaround of their own.

[TheSadCollector]

I hope they do this! When I try and do flow dynamics or flow rate it only lets me use presets from P1P instead of P1S.

[datashit]

+1

[naldoxable]

up

[d-komarov]

As a temporary workaround to prevent warning about incorrect g-code I just change the model_id from C12 to C11 in resources\profiles\BBL\machine\Bambu Lab P1S.json.

[lilyharuna]

+1. I really want this feature.

[IMiteBeWrong]

Bump.

Would really appreciate this as well; I was a little surprised that it wasn't already implemented by the time the first public shipments of the upgrade kit went out.

The kit includes front plate with the P1S logo on it. I may be silly to assume, but this somewhat suggests to me that once the kit is installed, Bambu Labs considers it a P1S (And obviously the rest of the parts included appears to make it identical).

Still waiting on mine to ship, should go out by the end of this month... Hopefully this will be added by then.

Thank you!

[skuridin]

Front panel of the printer literally says P1S, but Bambu Studio thinks otherwise. This creates unnecessary confusion.

Would be great to hear some feedback from the maintainers.

[tsmith35]

The biggest issue that the misidentification causes has to do with process profiles. The process profiles have two basic identifiers: "X1C" or "P1P".

This means that any profiles for the X1, X1C or P1S will happily work with all of them. But if a P1P is selected as the device, none of the user process profiles will appear. They're just not available.

I've found two ways to deal with the situation: one is to duplicate all of the user process profiles and meticulously change them to have "P1P" in the appropriate places. The other is to manually choose "P1S" as the printer type. And, of course, acknowledge the incorrect machine type for... Every. Single. Job.

Ideally, with the creation of the P1P-to-P1S kit, users should be given a means of selecting which printer identity is desired. It can be on the printer, it can be in the account or it can be in the software. Resorting to text-editing json files to work around a programming error is not a good solution. It's almost as bad as spending hundreds to update an MK3S+ to an MK3.9 -- if I am upgrading, I don't want to end up with a 99% upgrade.

[RyanEwen]

I received 2 new P1S's today to go along side 2 P1P's which I will be upgrading to P1S's, and I can already see how annoying it is going to be if I can't have the P1P's identified as P1S's.

None of my custom P1P filament profiles or quality profiles can be used with my new P1S's. It's going to be frustrating to duplicate all of my custom profiles, and the frustration will continue forever if I have to maintain both sets of profiles whenever I make changes to one in the future.

Please allow the P1P to be flashed with P1S firmware (and vice-versa in case of downgrade/mistake). Or at least create a printer setting to mark upgraded P1P's as P1S's from the LCD menu.

[capsel22]

+1

[sl1nki]

+1

[Phil-Barker]

+1

[IAmTheFuzz1]

+1
Official upgrade parts should mean official firmware compatibility.