Easy Camera to Monitor X-Carve

X-Carve Upgrades
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Well, this is one of my favorite upgrades, super simple using AtHome Camera app, an old iPod touch (could use any old iOS and Android phone I would think) and now can remotely monitor my X-Carve, with sound and video. I know other people have used Raspberry Pis or IP Cameras, but this seemed like the easiest and cheapest solution for what I had handy! Quality isn’t fantastic but covers what I need!

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Works great so instead of sitting in the cold garage, I can sit at my desk and work on other designs or homework, or whatever else and still keep tabs on things!

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but can you remote estop?

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Is that an actual question?

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rhetorical

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I’m confident enough in my programming I don’t feel the need for that. If I wasn’t I wouldn’t leave the room… But it would be easy to setup a VNC server or similar to allow remote access to the desktop at least if one was that concerned.

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I can think of several other (*) ways to stop a job remotely:

  • serial port JSON server on the local machine and Chilipeppr on the remote (you can send a feedhold)
  • bCNC on the local machine and calling its web pendant on the remote (you can send a feedhold)
  • embedded system like RPi & relay to break a circuit (equivalent to estop)
  • small IoT board (like Photon, or some ESP8266 based) & relay to break a circuit (equivalent to estop)

(*) i.e. faster, in case lag from getting a full screen, true color resolution over rdesktop/vnc is an issue

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So i just bought this camera from zmodo its been great so far its wireless and you can monitor from your phone best part is its only 35$

https://www.amazon.com/Zmodo-Wireless-Indoor-Security-Two-Way/dp/B014EMVGK2/ref=sr_1_17?s=photo&ie=UTF8&qid=1490372097&sr=1-17

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I downloaded the app onto 2 devices (I assumed one for streaming and one for monitoring). But I cannot seem to get past the “scan QR code” part. Am I missing something on the setup?