I am running gSender on a Raspberry Pi to control my machine and I am using ffmpeg to stream my webcam via http. It would be really cool if gSender had the ability to display a camera view for machines in other rooms. It would make it much easier to watch the machine.
Hi Chette,
I am not running my machine on pi but am using both a webcam directly connected to my office pc and an onvif setup that I can pick up troughout my local network (and beyond if need to be.) I’ve checked if it can run http cams and this is the case, I normaly use TCP/UDP to record on my onvif system.
I use the webcam primary to measure out stock on the machine bed to be able to project designs directly on irregular jobs. It’s USB connected so not directly usefull in your setup, but know that lightburn is able to work with a webcam.
If you have your cam connected to your local network you can bypass g-sender and work with any onvif capable software to display the stream. Maybe even use the pi to act as it’s eth hub?
I use ffmpeg to stream to http and I can view it currently. I was thinking from the perspective of it being a feature that might be added to have it all in one interface.
Your setup is awesome!
Yeah, I would like that feature in pretty much all my software that is used for the cnc. I now have to import a screenshot from Lightburn into V-carve and scale it to size using boxes. It’s pretty acurate but I bleep up here and there. It would be nice to not have to do that anymore.
I do run the remote g-sender on my office pc to monitor progress and it would indeed be nice to have a pip running along sinde the rendered one. I might mount a cam on the spindle aimed at the bit/dot if it would display in g-sender. I still need to be at the machine to see if feed 'n speed need adjusting.
It would be awesome to be on top of that too with a mug 'o coffee on the lips.
Setup is a bit over the top, for the space that I am in. Had to panorama the bloody screen to get it all in one shot.