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Re: Camera (UK based)
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021
by Martin Berriman
Philipp Pap wrote: Sun Feb 07, 2021
it was intended as a prototype but it worked so good that I just kept it. To be honest, it could look nicer
If it's not broken...
I notice your camera is auto-focus, I deliberately searched for a manual focus one to match the ones lightburn sell, do you find auto-focus makes a difference? - I guess if you have not had a manual focus one, you might not know
Re: Camera (UK based)
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021
by Doug Fisher
Re: Camera (UK based)
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021
by Philipp Pap
Well, autofocus does not help. I used a software on macOS that turned off autofocus and set a nice contrast but it doesn't work anymore after an os upgrade.
Re: Camera (UK based)
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021
by Roy Dickens
I've got my laser connected via ethernet cable and I like the idea of a camera to help with positioning etc. My problem is I would like to use a ip camera to do this. I've got a bit of software on my pc that mounts a cameras ip as a physical port so it can show up in lightburn but I need to find a camera that will work. All the ones I have seen so far need an app on your phone to view the stream and won't be available to a native internet browser on a pc. I have tried to use a esp32-cam which works as a proof of concept but the resolution is so bad it makes it unusable.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Re: Camera (UK based)
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021
by Doug Fisher
Go to LightBurn's forum and do some searching of the archives for the camera section. You should find some ideas there.
Re: Camera (UK based)
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021
by Lightburn Admin
Roy Dickens wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021
I've got my laser connected via ethernet cable... Does anyone have any suggestions?
Get a USB over CAT6 adaptor, and run a *really* long cable from the laser to the PC. I picked up a pair (one goes on each end) from Amazon for ~$30, and it will allow you to connect the ends with a 50M (150') cat6 cable, and it works fine even with high-res cameras. Most IP cameras use high compression (like H264) and are video only, intended for streaming high frame rate, low-ish quality video, instead of low-rate, high quality images.