Recognise our own print dispatch instead of guessing at a magic number

    (#2843 follow-up)

    Bambuddy records the project_file behind every print, because that command
    names where the sliced file was put and so decides whether the archive can
    have a thumbnail and slicer metadata at all. Its own dispatches were told
    apart from a slicer's by testing sequence_id against "20000", on the
    belief that 20000 was Bambuddy's alone.

    It never was. 20000 is the slicer convention Bambuddy copied --
    virtual_printer/bind_server documents the slicer sending exactly that
    during detect -- and both slicers count up from it. Measured on the wire:
    OrcaSlicer dispatched 20000 and then 20001, BambuStudio 20009 and 20010.
    So whichever dispatch happened to land on the shared value was filed as
    ours and never recorded, and after a slicer restart that is the first
    print you send. The test was wrong in the other direction too: it called
    every value above 20000 external, including ones we had sent ourselves,
    which only stayed invisible because we always send exactly 20000.

    Ownership is now established by remembering the job actually dispatched
    -- sequence id, file, url and subtask name -- and consuming that marker
    on the echo. One-shot deliberately: a slicer reprint of the same file a
    moment later is somebody else's print and must not hide behind our last
    one.

    Nothing about printing or archiving changes. current_project_url and
    ams_mapping are both captured before this branch and always were, so the
    storage verdict that gates the FTPS sweep is untouched; two tests pin
    that, because it is the part that would actually cost archives if it
    drifted. What changes is that the diagnostic entry stops lying, and it is
    the entry that tells an operator whether their printer stores files
    somewhere Bambuddy can read -- which is the whole subject of #2780 and
    would have to count, and an undercount there would have been silent.

backend/app/services/bambu_mqtt.py

@@ -1267,6 +1267,11 @@ class BambuMQTTClient:
         # by await_cali_ack.
         self._pending_cali_acks: dict[str, dict | None] = {}
 
+        # Identifies the one project_file *we* dispatched, so its echo on the
+        # topic can be told apart from a slicer's. One-shot: consumed by the
+        # first frame that matches. See _project_file_key.
+        self._own_project_file_key: str | None = None
+
         # Xcam hold timers - OrcaSlicer pattern: ignore incoming data for 3 seconds after command
         # Key: module_name, Value: timestamp when command was sent
         self._xcam_hold_start: dict[str, float] = {}
@@ -1857,16 +1862,35 @@ class BambuMQTTClient:
             # Diagnostic for #1162 follow-up (X2D + FTS routing): when a
             # slicer-launched project_file passes through the request topic,
             # log the full payload so we can diff Studio's field set against
-            # ours. We pin our own sequence_id to "20000" (line ~3195), so
-            # any other value means the command came from Studio/Orca, not
-            # from us.
-            if print_data.get("sequence_id") != "20000":
+            # ours.
+            #
+            # This used to read `sequence_id != "20000"`, on the belief that
+            # 20000 was ours alone. It is not: 20000 is the slicer convention
+            # Bambuddy adopted -- bind_server documents the slicer sending it
+            # during detect, and measured on the wire OrcaSlicer dispatched
+            # 20000 then 20001 while BambuStudio was on 20009/20010, both
+            # counting up from the same base. So the test swallowed whichever
+            # slicer dispatch happened to land on 20000, which on a fresh
+            # slicer start is the first one. Match our own dispatch instead.
+            if self._project_file_key(print_data) == self._own_project_file_key:
+                self._own_project_file_key = None
+            else:
                 logger.info(
                     "[%s] External project_file payload: %s",
                     self.serial_number,
                     json.dumps(print_data),
                 )
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _project_file_key(print_data: dict) -> str:
+        """Identity of a project_file dispatch, for telling ours from a slicer's.
+
+        Sequence id alone cannot do it -- every slicer counts up from the same
+        20000 -- so this also carries the file and its destination, which differ
+        between any two real dispatches.
+        """
+        return "|".join(str(print_data.get(field, "")) for field in ("sequence_id", "file", "url", "subtask_name"))
+
     def _debug_on_change(self, key: str, value: object, msg: str, *args: object) -> None:
         """``logger.debug``, but only when ``value`` differs from the last call for ``key``.
 
@@ -5844,6 +5868,9 @@ class BambuMQTTClient:
                         command["print"]["nozzle_mapping"] = resolved
 
             logger.info("[%s] Sending print command: %s", self.serial_number, json.dumps(command))
+            # Remember this dispatch so its echo on the topic is recognised as
+            # ours rather than logged as a slicer's.
+            self._own_project_file_key = self._project_file_key(command["print"])
             self._client.publish(self.topic_publish, json.dumps(command), qos=1)
             # Record what we dispatched so /cover can pick the right plate
             # thumbnail even when the printer's gcode_file echo is just the

backend/tests/unit/test_external_dispatch_detection.py

@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+"""Telling our own print dispatch from a slicer's (#2843 follow-up).
+
+The old test was ``sequence_id != "20000"``, on the belief that 20000 was
+Bambuddy's alone. Measured on the wire 2026-08-17: OrcaSlicer dispatched
+``20000`` and then ``20001``, while BambuStudio was on ``20009`` / ``20010`` --
+both counting up from the same base, which is also the value
+``virtual_printer/bind_server`` documents the slicer sending during detect. So
+the check swallowed whichever slicer dispatch landed on 20000, which after a
+slicer restart is the first one.
+
+It matters beyond the log line: counting Studio-versus-Orca dispatches across
+support bundles is how the size of the internal-storage problem gets measured,
+and an undercount there is silent.
+"""
+
+import json
+import logging
+
+import pytest
+
+from backend.app.services.bambu_mqtt import BambuMQTTClient
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def client():
+    return BambuMQTTClient(ip_address="192.168.1.100", serial_number="TEST123", access_code="12345678")
+
+
+def _project_file(sequence_id, file="Cube.gcode.3mf", url="ftp://Cube.gcode.3mf", subtask="Cube"):
+    return {
+        "print": {
+            "sequence_id": sequence_id,
+            "command": "project_file",
+            "file": file,
+            "url": url,
+            "subtask_name": subtask,
+            "ams_mapping": [0],
+        }
+    }
+
+
+def _external_lines(caplog):
+    return [r for r in caplog.records if "External project_file payload" in r.getMessage()]
+
+
+class TestSlicerDispatchIsReported:
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("seq", ["20000", "20001", "20009", "20010"])
+    def test_every_slicer_sequence_id_is_logged(self, client, caplog, seq):
+        """20000 included -- that is the one the old check threw away."""
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.INFO, logger="backend.app.services.bambu_mqtt"):
+            client._handle_request_message(_project_file(seq))
+
+        assert len(_external_lines(caplog)) == 1
+
+    def test_the_payload_is_logged_verbatim(self, client, caplog):
+        """It exists to be diffed against ours, so it has to be complete."""
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.INFO, logger="backend.app.services.bambu_mqtt"):
+            client._handle_request_message(_project_file("20000"))
+
+        logged = json.loads(_external_lines(caplog)[0].getMessage().split("payload: ", 1)[1])
+        assert logged["url"] == "ftp://Cube.gcode.3mf"
+        assert logged["sequence_id"] == "20000"
+
+
+class TestOwnDispatchIsNotReported:
+    def test_our_own_echo_is_recognised(self, client, caplog):
+        """Bambuddy publishes to the topic it subscribes to, so it sees its own
+        dispatch come back."""
+        ours = _project_file("20000", url="ftp://MyPrint.3mf", file="MyPrint.3mf", subtask="MyPrint")
+        client._own_project_file_key = client._project_file_key(ours["print"])
+
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.INFO, logger="backend.app.services.bambu_mqtt"):
+            client._handle_request_message(ours)
+
+        assert _external_lines(caplog) == []
+
+    def test_the_marker_is_consumed(self, client, caplog):
+        """One-shot. A second identical dispatch is somebody else's -- a reprint
+        from the slicer of the same file must not hide behind our last one."""
+        ours = _project_file("20000")
+        client._own_project_file_key = client._project_file_key(ours["print"])
+
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.INFO, logger="backend.app.services.bambu_mqtt"):
+            client._handle_request_message(ours)
+            client._handle_request_message(ours)
+
+        assert len(_external_lines(caplog)) == 1
+
+    def test_a_slicer_sharing_our_sequence_id_is_still_reported(self, client, caplog):
+        """The exact collision that motivated this: same 20000, different file."""
+        ours = _project_file("20000", file="Ours.3mf", url="ftp://Ours.3mf", subtask="Ours")
+        client._own_project_file_key = client._project_file_key(ours["print"])
+
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.INFO, logger="backend.app.services.bambu_mqtt"):
+            client._handle_request_message(_project_file("20000", file="Theirs.3mf", url="brtc://emmc/Theirs.3mf"))
+
+        assert len(_external_lines(caplog)) == 1
+
+
+class TestUnaffectedBehaviour:
+    def test_the_project_url_is_captured_either_way(self, client):
+        """The storage verdict must not depend on who dispatched -- it is read
+        before the ours/theirs test and drives whether the FTPS sweep runs."""
+        ours = _project_file("20000", url="ftp://Ours.3mf", file="Ours.3mf", subtask="Ours")
+        client._own_project_file_key = client._project_file_key(ours["print"])
+        client._handle_request_message(ours)
+        assert client.state.current_project_url == "ftp://Ours.3mf"
+
+        client._handle_request_message(_project_file("20009", url="brtc://emmc/Theirs.3mf"))
+        assert client.state.current_project_url == "brtc://emmc/Theirs.3mf"
+
+    def test_ams_mapping_is_captured_either_way(self, client):
+        ours = _project_file("20000")
+        client._own_project_file_key = client._project_file_key(ours["print"])
+        client._handle_request_message(ours)
+        assert client._captured_ams_mapping == [0]