Cheap Remote Monitoring for ANY 3D Printer!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2024
- Do you haz printer? Do you not like spahget? Then you must SEE what it do be doing!
In today's video, we cover how to easily program and install an esp32 camera on ANY 3d printer!
For those that prefer written instructions, here's a guide i found
randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32...
and here's that link you need to copy/paste for esp32 support in the Arduino IDE
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That's a wonderful idea! I had been wondering if these worked well, glad to see that they do!
What a great tinker project!! Just ordered a couple to add to my Ender3 and Elf printers!! Thanks for a great tutorial!
Great video! Another great option for the software is ESP Home, which you can then also flash the ESP board and program it over their web interface. Its a fantastic open source project with crazy good documentation.
You made it look easy!
Took me like 2 hours to get it working.
At first, I could not get it to find a port.
I bumbled my way though it though and got it working nicely!
Your video was a great help though.
I just use dedicated IP cams. Can get them on sale every now and then. Pan and Tilt is nice to check how much filament might be left.
After you mentioned this on stream I decided to order one and your software is so much better than the one I found by searching so will be updating mine asap.
One thing about ESP-32 CAM modules is the orientation of the camera varies with vendors. I have one that I have the board oriented horizontally where as another I have to have the board orientated vertically. In both cases the image will be in landscape orientation.
I have several servos from planes I no longer fly and decided to use two of them to add tilt and pan to one of my cameras which works very well except the resolution is fixed within the code. There are several people that have posted code and instructions for doing this with the ESP-32 CAM. I used the version by Rui Santos.
Great video! Looking forward to your PrusaConnect ESP32-CAM setup video next.
I have an Esp32 cam sitting idle for few years.. You just reminded me to actually use it..
Very cool. I run klipper on my mini pc with ubuntu OS so I just use webcams. This is a pretty nice add-on for cheap. And I believe you can use some of the other IO pins on the esp32 to control lighting etc. Good video thanks for sharing!
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
That's a LOT of work (and extra expenses). I recently bought two A10 1080p wireless cameras on AliExpress for USD$3.99 each. Connected no problem to my smartphone, tablet, or computer via WiFi. Runs on 5V USB. Also allows for a TF card, up to 64GB. The whole camera, excluding the tiny pivot stand, is about the size of a ping-pong ball, and weighs less than a golf ball. With a magnet or clamp it can be mounted wherever I want it, and with a power bank I can power it without cables. Easy peasy!
Do you mind sharing a link
@@ju5th3r3clearly they do. Don’t know why people make such a point and lengthy post only to not add a link.
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure they don't have a streaming address that you can input in Octoprint in order to have an easy all in one app experience, and also to use the timelapse and spaghettis detector octoprint plugins.
Guys you don't need a link, aliexpress is filled with 3$ mini wifi IP cameras, though the A10 for that price is probably a knockoff but still usable for monitoring, if you don't mind installing out of store apps, a horrible image quality and you place them outside an enclosure because they have small lipo batteries that could catch fire.
@@freeemailssuck6848 I did provide a link and the comment was promptly deleted. Then I re-posted the comment without the link, but with instructions on how to access the link. That appears to also have been deleted. Try posting a link and see for yourself!
Great video... and great idea. I may just get a handful of these to try. Could use 2 or 3 alone on my RatRig LOL
There are also other ESP32-Cam software (most based on this example code) that can allow two streams since the ESP32 has two cores. I find this is useful for octoprint use as well as a quick check on things. Some have better "wifi" setup and connection. BUT, this is at least a great entry point to get someone started, and YES - for more than one or two printers to monitor, this is way better than generic USB web cams to a separate computer (or the one running klipper, etc). I enjoy these more than the live streaming.
I think I'll try one of these. They do usb-c versions too and it was just £12 in the UK
Now you have to do the AM8 upgrade cycle on this one!
I used my Anet A8 last night to print a PETG part for my Ender 3 Pro 😅
My first 3d printer was an Anet A6 (still in the workshop)... I removed the acrylic frame and used aluminium profiles. Now i yse an Elegoo Neptune 3 Plus.
Nice. I use mine with Octoprint inside my enclosure, I power it with a 2$ dc-dc stepdown board from a 12v power supply that powers the enclosure LEDs. I print ABS so my enclosure hovers around 50c, never had a problem with it.
Thanks, I have them on order (you didn't link the Amazon items...) I should have it updated this weekend! I think I can power them from the display board on my SV06.
wow very usefull! thanks
Neat. I think Mainsail also has an option for an IP camera.
Another contender for cheap Webcam is to salvage one out of an old dead laptop. My printer has one out of an Fujitsu Laptop form 2012. Usually i would say its pretty easy to do, as most of these cameras run just USB protocol. Where you have to probe out GND and Power with multimeter and take a guess at D+ D-, and if you guessed wrong just switch the data lines and try again. Juts solder on an USB cable and be done with it.
But i tried that with some more recent laptop webcams and most newer than 2016-ish have microphones and so on bundled on that little camera PCB and are more hit or miss if they actually work without an drivers and are fiddley as they got more than 4 wires coming of them.
But if anyone got a old laptop and an USB cable there might a free printer cam in there.
thanks!
did this exact thing on my CR10 a few years ago. super easy. great video.
One application idea I can immediately think of is to use it as stealthburner nozzle cam and get power from the can board on the toolhead! I’m so excited! But I want hi-res and hi frame rate, is it limited by the camera module or the chip? or the WiFi speed?
Thanks for doing this, I have been trying ti figure out how to add a camera to my Prusa XL. You think for $5K they would have one built in.
question did you integrate that in prusa connect ? and did you use light on feature ? which would make sense at my printers ,.. thx
What budget friendly camera do you recommend for time lapses ? I was looking for RPi cam v3 but CSI cables are short for my Voron. And also i use Manta m8p with CB1 so no CSI camera module for me.
You know... now i am thinking why somebody didn't convert old laptop webcams for that purpose, for cheaper.
thats pretty sick
Liked the bogus ssid.
"Lets get started"... Where have I heard that kickoff phrase :)
Great Scott! TH-cam channel!
With an Ozzie accent :)
Super easy to set up but I recommend to get esp32 with ipex output because that on board antenna is almost useless. I'm sitting 1 meter away from my router and have problems with good streaming.
I can't believe it, i just wanted to write you if it is possible to make video on this topic. Thanks!!!
In my personal experience and also a friend i talked to had the same experience, if you look at the esp32 boards wrong, they will fry themselves. I fried 3 on one project and i’m almost completely certain it was just from static discharge. They seem to have a lot less safeties built into them than an arduino or pi. But great budget wifi boards nonetheless
Seems like a great way to throw a cam in a Milo enclosure. If the lens gets hit by a chip just swap it out!
My ESP32 cams seem to be crapped, they won't flash the rom properly. I got the same model as you, I've heard some of them from about 3 years ago were bad batches.
Unless someone here resolved trouble with flashing the rom?
Maybe I can get a better result trying to follow your guide here for this case use, I'll try again
I bought a couple of these last week but used different firmware because all the face detection software is not needed.
That printer is fire
true
That’s good. You can watch it while it’s burning
I'm sick of idiots bashing this machine who clearly have never owned one. The reason some people had fires is because they did not assemble the machine according to the manual and left the hotend wires hanging down unsupported. Complete user error. The A8 is an absolute workhorse of a machine stock and yet infintely modable if desired. I still have my early model from back when they came with printed parts. Even today I would trust it over any other machine I have ever owned. And I've owned a few.
Fun fact, the only fire I ever had was a Prusa MK2 and that WAS because of design error. And I wasn't the only one it happened to. When I showed them they didn't want to know me and even deleted my account. I fixed the machine, made it safe and sold it. To this day I've never touched a Prusa since and I never will.
Could you just use a USB cable and plug that into an available USB port on a Klipper board and add it in Klipper?
How do you find it running long term? I did the same a couple of years ago and I found it got really hot when it was streaming constantly to the point where it shut itself off after a day or so. I ended up just turning it on as I did a print hoping it would last the day. Any longer prints I couldn't use it at all.
You can get a m5stack CAMS3 Unit for 15 dollars. How much faster is and ESP32-S3 compared to the original which this thing has? It can do time lapses, it can even do short videos. The software you need is pre-installed and it's in a case form factor.
Also, the ESP32-S3 is the MCU used in Bambu's P line of printers. How they got a 3D printer working on a 5 dollar microprocessor is beyond me but it can be a voice assistant so it's a LOT faster.
Also, Fly Pi2 from Mellow 3d is great for running Klipper or repeat, it has a 12/24v power input, an SPI and FPC output for small touchscreens and HDMI touchscreens, and a CAN bus. All for 30 bucks. It has some no flash boot function also.
I just set one of these up and everything looked to working as it should except that the frame rate is stupid slow regardless of the resolution and the video feed disappears after a few minutes. What did I do wrong?
Ive finaly managed to get it set up, I had to download a USB driver for it to find it. But the lag is just painful and not really much use. Is there anything I can do to reduce it and have a picture big enough to actualy see?
Is it constantly streaming or is it off when you're not on the Web server ip address? I would hate it to be constantly initialized and wasting
I use the esp32 camera with Prusa Connect on my Prusa MK4. Sufficient and inexpensive for monitoring.
How did you do it? And do you think it will get too hot in the prusa enclosure?
@@random_user_2023 If you look in the English Prusa MK4 forum at User Mods you will find a post
ESP32 Cam Support. johnyHV has written a post there. I followed these instructions.
I received my boards and tried to install from the video. The links that are supposed to be in the description are not present, could you add them?
That's why it too me 2 hours to set mine up, all the searching on the web to figure it out.
@@johnwatrous3058why didn't you help us all by adding the link in your post
Watching this while my Anet A8 is printing even more upgrades loudly in the corner... Never has failed me yet.
Btw... It kinda grosses me out seeing your A8 with the protective paper still on 😂
Manual never said to remove it lol
@@CanuckCreator Fair enough 🤣
Can this be used to monitor a printer from anywhere, or can it only be used by devices on the same home network?
Only works on the LAN its connected to, no internet
Can I make any printer a WiFi printer ?
Anet a8. My first 3d printer. Didn't touch one for 3 years after this disaster of a 3d printer. Lucky it didn't burn the house down, as it did with others. Change the psu as soon as possible.
I’m cheap. I have an iPhone 7 with shattered screen (still somewhat visible) and run an RTSP app (Live Reporter) on it as my web cam lol😅
Last time I tried this the esp got super hot. Do you know if yours had that problem?
Ive got 2 at the moment hooked up, they get warm, but hasnt been an issue so far
Can these be used with klipper / Mainsail ?
you CAN import an IP camera feed into mainsail yes, however, at that point you may be better off with just a cheap webcam because you already have the RPI equivalent and everything else installed in the printer
@@CanuckCreator thank you!
I missed out on something. When did everyone decide to start putting the dollar sign on the wrong side of the number? It's $10.
Tried a couple of these and the webserver seems SUPER slow - no where near what is shown in the video ...????
You missed a chance at an affiliate link to the actual cam you used. I had to pause and zoom.
@13:42 Also like the smash button!
Even my mk2 eyeballs can't see the printer without a camera in the room with the printer.
It's not a dinosaur, it just doesn't have any fancy bells and whistles.... I'll challenge you to a benchy race with my Printrbot simple... soon.
one point I didn't see you make is that this setup.....is that the wifi is super weak.
There is an onscreen list of downsides near the end of the video, as for my testing, I have a wifi router in the room with the printers so I myself didnt see any issues, even when connecting it to the wifi in my house it was still usable, although ya, i could see having a lot of walls or a far away router would be an issue
@@CanuckCreator I love the small set up there is even a print that u can attach to the bed of the printer but I couldn't get a stable connection.....xfinity mesh network with a pretty decent signal strength.....but i do know there is an external wifi antenna that I could get but haven't. grabbed c110 topo instead.
Anyone know if you can do this without having to have a separate PC sharing the stream with PrusaConnect? Is the ESP32 cam able to take video and upload to PrusaConnect so I don't have to have a PC using OBS to capture the RTSP as a virtual camera then upload to PrusaConnect?
I use an esp32 camera with Prusa Connect for my MK4.
You don't need an extra computer.
@@herr_rossi69 You have a guide somewhere you used or did you just fiddle with their API?
If you look in the English Prusa MK4 forum at User Mods you will find a post
ESP32 Cam Support. johnyHV has written a post there. I followed these instructions
@@herr_rossi69 Thank you, I will give it a review!
Heads up, the TronXY Anet A8 clone (P802MA) uses the fake FTDI serial chip which will brick itself if you allow your printer on the Internet.
Wait anet a8....... Fire nation of printers 😅
The camera you showed said $33 so how is that under $10 ? Did enjoy the video though
Canada pricing, amazon USA has 5 for just over 30
there even cheaper on aliexpress
@@CanuckCreator wow I live in the wrong country! Much more expensive in the uk
Turns out building a printer out of acrylic really was not a great idea.
Me hearing this after getting my Robo3D in 2015😳
That thing needs to be in a fire proof box…..
ya, the anet doesnt get used much, its mostly a prop tbh
Thanks for the informative video. You should go back and count how many times you say (Go Ahead). Its likely in the hundreds. I think you used it every other sentence.
ESP32 has critical unfixable security flaws!
Well than list them and share a source. Don't just say the sky is falling
Or just use an old phone with the athome app and $0 spent and nearly 0 efforts too.
First
ESP32 cameras are not great for reliability or quality. Lots of personal experience.
Thank you. Can you be more thorough next time. Show us how to add it in Octoprint, which plugin to use there, is it possible to start and stop it from the plugin whiout accessing the ip of the camwebserver directly, how to deal with it getting hot.... many things are left out.
I just bough a cheap Wyze camera. They are around $25 but I found them on sale for under $20 several times. You can view them from anywhere. All you need to do is plug it in and hook it up to your WiFi. None of this programming junk.
Tried this a few weeks ago and it was not a worthwile expierence. ESP was crashed every time I went to 720p or beyond, quality slider was also a quick access to crash function. Lowering quality beyond anything you´d want to look at it sometimes magaed to get a 720p still, but never more then a few frames of video before the esp went offline. All on a WROVER ESPCam Board with extra SPI RAM and all the goodies, connected to a Meanwell 5V3A power supply. Also the image quality - These Omnivison sensors are 2006 era flip phone sensors. They look bad in daylight, but under a small artificial light, the kind you have in or pointed at your printer, it is more noise than picture at all.
They might be cheap, but the jank and the "almost older than me" image quality isnt even worth the few bucks youre paying for that imo...
CLICKBAIT
1:58 35$ its soo much under 10$ 😅
www.amazon.com/DORHEA-Bluetooth-Development-4-75V-5-25V-Raspberry/dp/B09Z6J9RK5?th=1 or 5 for 32
Just depends on your location and how many ya want, but they can easily be found for even cheaper on aliexpress if you dont mind the wait
"you can add webcam functionality to your 3d printer for under $10!"
except it's not. It's $10 for the ES32, $10 for the webcam,, that's $20.
Here ya go, 5 ESP32 w/ Cam AND usb micro board for 32 bucks
Math isnt my strongest, but i THINK thats under 10 bucks each
www.amazon.com/DORHEA-Bluetooth-Development-4-75V-5-25V-Raspberry/dp/B09Z6J9RK5
Where I'm at it's 14 euro's for both including tax.
@@CanuckCreator This is awesome. I'm adding this to all of my printers.
More 3d printing elitism.
"Hey heres the cheapest way to give your printer a camera"
which is somehow elitism....
wut?
@@CanuckCreator OMG I'm kidding. haha