Monitor Your 3D Printer from Your Smart Home Dashboard
If you've got a Bambu Lab 3D printer and use Home Assistant, your workflow is about to get a whole lot smoother. Instead of constantly checking on your prints or walking over to the printer, you can now monitor everything directly from your home automation dashboard.
This new integration brings your Bambu Lab printer into your smart home ecosystem, giving you real-time visibility and control right alongside your lights, thermostats, and other connected devices.
What It Does
The Bambu Lab Home Assistant integration connects your Bambu Lab 3D printer to your Home Assistant instance, creating a suite of sensors that track everything happening with your printer. It pulls real-time data about print progress, temperatures, print status, and more, then surfaces all this information as entities you can use throughout your Home Assistant environment.
Why It's Cool
The beauty of this integration is how it transforms your 3D printer from a standalone device into a connected part of your smart home. You can create automations that trigger when prints complete, monitor print progress from your dashboard, or even get notifications if something goes wrong mid-print.
Some of the key sensors it provides include:
- Current print status and progress percentage
- Nozzle and bed temperatures
- Print stage tracking (preparing, printing, cooling, etc.)
- Time remaining estimates
- Chamber temperature and fan speeds
The implementation is particularly clever because it uses the same local network communication that the official Bambu Studio software uses, meaning you're not relying on cloud services or external APIs that could change or go down.
How to Try It
You can install this integration through HACS (Home Assistant Community Store):
- Open HACS in your Home Assistant instance
- Go to Integrations and click the "+" button
- Search for "Bambu Lab" and select it
- Click "Download" and restart Home Assistant
- Add the integration through Settings > Devices & Services
After installation, you'll need to enter your printer's IP address and the access code (which you can find in your printer's settings under "Network"). The integration will automatically discover and create all the relevant sensors.
Final Thoughts
As someone who's constantly jumping between projects, having my 3D printer status visible at a glance in Home Assistant has been a game-changer. No more wondering if that 8-hour print is done yet—I can just check my phone or set up an automation to notify me when it completes.
For developers working on home automation projects, this integration opens up some interesting possibilities. You could create dashboards specifically for your workshop, set up automated lighting that changes based on print status, or even integrate with other systems to pause prints when certain conditions are met.
It's one of those quality-of-life improvements that you don't realize you need until you have it.
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