BamBuddy
a self-hosted print archive for Bambu Lab 3D printers
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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
HN · launched Mar 19, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 46%) · 0 views
Niche: 3d printing software and utilities · 42 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Manufacturing
- Vertical SaaS
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a self-hosted dashboard that connects to Bambu 3D printers over LAN via standard MQTT and FTPS to capture telemetry and store files in SQLite/PostgreSQL.
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