Farm overview
Live status, progress, layers, time left and errors for every printer, with camera thumbnails on each card.
iPhone app for Bambuddy
Your whole print farm, on the Lock Screen
LayerPal connects to your own Bambuddy server and puts every running print in one Live Activity, with push alerts when a print finishes, fails or needs you.
Free beta · iOS 17.2 or newer · Bambuddy 1.3.0 or newer recommended
Thursday, November 12
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3 printing · 1 needs you
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X1C Bay 2Cable clips x40Error
P1S ShifuBenchy batch82%0:24:10
H2DDrawer handles38%5:12:02
A1 miniSpool holder12%1:47:30
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A1 Combo finishednow
Phone stand v3 · 2h 41m · 38 g PLA
Everything Bambuddy does, in your pocket
LayerPal talks to Bambuddy over its REST API and WebSocket. Your server stays stock; there's nothing to patch.
One Live Activity
A single Lock Screen and Dynamic Island card covers all active prints, and it keeps counting down after you close the app.
Push notifications
Finished, failed and paused prints and printer errors, with the finish photo attached.
Printer controls
Pause, resume, stop, lights, speed, temperatures, filament load and unload, and clearing the plate.
Cameras
A camera wall for the whole farm and a full-screen live view with pinch to zoom.
Queue, spools and admin
Print queue, filament mapping, archives, library and projects. Spool inventory, built in or Spoolman, plus maintenance, stats and server admin.
Printers in Bambu cloud mode are watch-only. Bambu only lets third-party software control printers in LAN-only mode with Developer Mode on.
How push works
Apple only delivers pushes from a server that holds the app's key, so LayerPal uses a small relay on Cloudflare Workers between your Bambuddy and your phone.
- 1You sign in to your Bambuddy
The app registers your phone with the relay and adds a webhook notifier in Bambuddy that points at it. Bambuddy's stock webhook provider does the rest.
- 2The relay refreshes your Live Activity
Once a minute it reads your farm's status with a read-only API key.
- 3Apple delivers it to your phone
Alerts and Lock Screen updates arrive even when LayerPal is closed.
Join the TestFlight beta
LayerPal is in beta. You'll need a Bambuddy server your phone can reach, at home or through a reverse proxy.
- Install TestFlight from the App Store
- Open the beta link on your iPhone and tap Accept, then Install
- Enter your Bambuddy address and sign in, or paste an API key
