Yes sir, Iāve seen this video before and what a scary thing to watch. So you feel better, my computer is just in the next office, about 15 ft away and you might also feel better to know that I donāt run a job away from my machine. I only want to be able to complete my setup from my computer.
I only hit run at the machine once Iāve verified my set up is correct. That part of the touch screen works perfectly.
Thank you for your concern 
Oh thats cool so your comp is away from the dust and junk thats cool. Good thinking .
Yes sir, however I would like to be able to see via my computer and camera and maybe even record video of a cut here and there.
I mounted mine on a flexible arm clamped to the bench so I can swing it around for different anglesāitās way easier to tweak the view during a job that way.
The ip cam has pretty much covers the machine bed and can swifl if needed.
My webcam needs to be mounted steady-ish. Itās a lightburn calibrated camera that gives a dimension accurate picture of whatever is on the bed. When moved, it needs to be calibrated again if I want to take screenshots of it to use in vcarve to design on.
Swifeling isnāt an option for that one, but when only used as a way to monitor the machine. Yeas, that is the way to go.
Do you have a picture of your setup for inspirational purpouse?
I use a camera on my machine fixed at the side of the gantry to see the job running. Many times you cant always be there during longer jobs. The camera allows you to see if something goes wrong, if you see smoke and so on. Some jobs can take more than 4 hours, youād be nuts to stand there for 4 hours hehe. If you have a air compressor with a wide spray nozzle and a small smoke detector located close to the spindle, you can set it to trigger a powerful air burst in case of smoke, should put out a fire. I havnt got to a situation where it was needed yet but it is a form of safety. Dont want to spray water on my machine and work piece 
Welcome to the forum.
Not sure blowing air on a smoldering fire is what Iād want to do. Blowing air on a smoldering fire is WHAT I do when I want it to get bigger!
A sudden burst may not fan a fire but it might just blow burning wood bits everywhere
I stuck a small 360 cam on a cheap arm mount above my machine and it worked better than I expected. Ended up going with one from insta360.com after seeing some test footage. Being able to move through the video and zoom in on different parts of the cut later is pretty cool. You donāt need to worry much about framing since you can adjust your angle after recording.
Hey Canyonet,
Interesting camera. Do you have screenshots you can share?
Dit you try this cam in combinatiin with the camera function in lightburn?
Mine is positively archaic compared to other setups. It does let me monitor my shop in a browser from my second floor office. I can also see the time remaining graph in gSender so I know when the job is finished. Itās not good enough to see the actual minutes left, but since it is almost always way off anyway, it really doesnāt matter to me.
The camera is a very old dlink isp camera connected with ethernet to my home network. I can pan and magnify, but it is very basic.
