Fix the print queue with the Bambu AMS (Lite)#861

Recently (maybe since the big update with all the improvements) print queueing has been driving me mad, and I think I’ve finally figured out why (and I’m not sure if it was always this way, but it needs to be fixed).

I was seemingly randomly having a mismatch between the slicer and the print queue. I would slice something in the Orca slicer with a standard profile for the filament I wanted to use, add it to the queue, and the queue would then not match to my printer, because the material expects 260 ° but the queue item says 200 ° (or something roughly like that most times) even though the filament was there and recognised in the AMS on my dashboard.

I’m using a Bambu Lab A1 which the AMS Lite, so a super common setup, and it seemed really random when this would happen. And sometimes I would fix it by removing spools from the AMS and re-loading them, sometimes in different orders.

And it eventually clicked what was happening. It seems as though the queueing system goes through the AMS slot by slot looking for a material match, and as soon as it finds a partial match, it stops looking through it, and checks the other attributes, and unless they all match, it doesn’t print (which is what you want). But it then does not continue looking through the slots, it just gives up and doesn’t print, even though there is a matching material in a later slot.

PLEASE fix this so that it continues checking the other slots, as right now I’m having to constantly juggle which material is in which slot to get it to print, and this entire “automated” setup is not very automated at all, and kind of pointless to pay for to be honest.

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