I purchased some #Bambu filament refills and am struggling. I got them on the spool without any issues, and then used the one visible filament end (which is bent 90 degrees at the end, to make it easier to find I assume?). But the filament immediately pulls below the spooled-up part, which massively increases friction and leads to my printer being unable to pull it in, the spool wobbling while being unrolled, etc.

Where is my mistake? Is there another end visible that I should find and use instead? I am so confused right now - already messed up one spool beyond repair because I also didn’t lock the spools properly, now on my second refill pack but still can’t get it to work because of this… any help would be appreciated.

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@mjack or get some ESPs and use the Bluetooth proxy firmware, if you need more coverage.

@mjack ah, as I suspected. Then there really isn’t any way around that, I‘m afraid. Not sure if the Bluetooth option I mentioned will work or if you would need to grant location access for that as well - haven’t used it, let alone on android.

@mjack yes, I think it may be a OS thing, I‘m afraid. Though maybe the currently active WiFi name may be exposed without location permission, I‘m not sure (haven’t been an android user for a few years). If it is available without the permission, you should be able to see it in the list of sensors in the app settings, I would expect, like this:

@mjack many OS‘s require location access to see the WiFi APs in the area, since that can be used to triangulate your location. You can turn on the permissions and then turn off the GPS sensor in the app if you don’t want to publish the info to your server.

WiFi- and especially network Ping-based presence will likely not work with a mobile phone, since they tend to drop off the network to save power. GPS has been rock solid for me, but if that isn’t for you, you could look into Bluetooth-based presence using the built-in options (I think some exist, but haven’t worked with them yet) or espresence / Bermuda (haven’t worked with them, either).