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

# Bambu Lab X1 in your Mac menu bar

Your original X1 gets everything the X1 Carbon does: the panel, the widgets, the chamber light and every control.

**Status:** verified on hardware

## What Bambu Bar shows for the X1

- 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 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 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)