---
title: "Bambu Lab X1 Carbon monitor for Mac: Bambu Bar"
description: "See your Bambu Lab X1 Carbon's progress, temperatures and filament in the Mac menu bar."
url: https://bambubar.app/printers/x1-carbon
---

# Bambu Lab X1 Carbon in your Mac menu bar

The X1 Carbon reports chamber temperature, both auxiliary fans and its chamber light, all of which Bambu Bar shows in the panel, the window and the large widget.

**Status:** verified on hardware

## What Bambu Bar shows for the X1 Carbon

- Progress, layers, time left and finish time
- Nozzle temperature (up to 300 °C)
- Bed temperature (up to 110 °C)
- Chamber temperature
- AMS spools by colour name, grams left and humidity
- Chamber light switch
- Part, aux and chamber fans
- Door open warning
- 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

## X1 Carbon at a glance

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Chamber | Enclosed, with temperature sensor |
| Build volume | 256 × 256 × 250 mm |
| Nozzles | 1 (up to 300 °C) |
| Bed | up to 110 °C |
| Filament system | AMS |

## Set up

1. [Download Bambu Bar](https://bambubar.app/download) and open it.
2. Pick your X1 Carbon 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)