---
title: "Bambu Lab A1 mini monitor for Mac: Bambu Bar"
description: "See your Bambu Lab A1 mini's progress, temperatures and filament in the Mac menu bar."
url: https://bambubar.app/printers/a1-mini
---

# Bambu Lab A1 mini in your Mac menu bar

The A1 mini in your menu bar: progress, temperatures and each AMS Lite spool in its real colour, with the grams left.

**Status:** verified on hardware

## What Bambu Bar shows for the A1 mini

- Progress, layers, time left and finish time
- Nozzle temperature (up to 300 °C)
- Bed temperature (up to 80 °C)
- AMS Lite spools by colour name, with grams left
- Part cooling fan
- Pause, resume, stop and print speed (LAN Only + Developer Mode)
- Printer errors (HMS) in plain words, in Bambu Lab's own translations, with a link to the wiki

## A1 mini at a glance

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Chamber | Open frame |
| Build volume | 180 × 180 × 180 mm |
| Nozzles | 1 (up to 300 °C) |
| Bed | up to 80 °C |
| Filament system | AMS Lite |

## Set up

1. [Download Bambu Bar](https://bambubar.app/download) and open it.
2. Pick your A1 mini from the printers found on your network.
3. The access code fills itself in from Bambu Studio or OrcaSlicer, or read it on the printer under Settings → Network.

Controls (pause, resume, stop, speed) need the printer in LAN Only mode with Developer Mode on; status works in any mode.

[All compatible printers](https://bambubar.app/printers)