Is there a way to display a job on the computer screen while in process and have the laser position show on said display while running?
This would save on having to look at the project while running. This would also be convenient if you have no camera.
Thanks!
No, but it would be nice to have. Same as router software.
This is exactly why it is not possible to follow the laser “online” on the screen during the process. - Laser processing is a risky work process with a constant danger of fire. I’m not the first and certainly not the last one to have a fire in the laser.
This also applies to video surveillance of the Lightburn’s camera system, Lightburn does not allow “livestreaming” for Safty reasons.
How RUDE! 
While it might be convenient, it’s not possible because laser and CNC controllers do not produce command-by-command position data.
GRBL-based controllers have an input buffer of indefinite size, so the command LightBurn just sent won’t be performed until some time in the future. Some G-Code senders fake real-time position data by plotting the commands as they’re sent, but LightBurn does not do that.
Part of the reason is that Ruida-based controllers (for larger CO₂ machines, which was LightBurn’s original target) receive the entire command file in one lump and produce no feedback whatsoever, meaning they’re a lost cause.
As a rule of thumb: you’ll find absolutely no LightBurn support for any feature that would let you do anything other than stand there and watch the laser do its thing. Although this may not have happened to you yet, laser machines have a regrettable tendency to occasionally execute an unplanned “Halt and Catch Fire” command requiring your immediate attention to extinguish the blaze.
While I agree with your other statements here I don’t think this one is accurate. At least it’s not for me.
I get a live stream of camera video while burning a job. Granted the angle is funky because the camera is mounted to the door.
No, I have not experience this, but I am aware of the possibility of such happening. I always stay in the garage with the laser as it is in operation.
Thanks for the warning. Other may not be aware.
I was mainly thinking along the lines of safety as well not having to look directly at the laser even with laser glasses.
I have not expressed myself clear, there is no option in Lightburn to look at Lightburn’s work area, where the laser is and camera image on the work surface will also not be actualized without acting on a button. However, it is correct that in the camera window itself, it is possible to see a kind of live stream. It is also possible to install an external video camera, but the official lightburn attitude has always been a clear no go to this option.
I am going to take this time to offer my apologies.
I understood the answer from the first post. It is no solution, but an answer to the question. I can be one that enjoys playing the devil’s advocate from time to time.
Thank you for the input and good fun.
Your friend and future pain in the rear, 
Eric
It’s definitely not necessary.
We all have our opinions and attitudes, but as long as we can express us and listen to each other, then everything is FEIN. 
Is that ENIF in another language?
FINE 
…I have friends from Germany visiting and I switch between Danish, German and English, fine is actually fine in German and Danish 
We should get along quite nicely then. I’m always poking the developers.
Guten Morgan. (Can’t write German well at all, and speak even less)
My father was in the military and we lived in Germany for 2 years, back when I was 7 years old.
60 years ago.
I was just playing around with you. 
I get a kick out of that sort of thing now and again.
I have a weird sense of humor that way.
While a long job is running, I sit next to the laser and do either design or finishing work. However, I’m not very productive because I’m constantly changing glasses and craning over to look into the enclosure.
The laptop is usually within easy view, so I really need to get a camera set up. I’m “never” more than an arm reach away but I can’t justify the cost of an enclosure that’s almost entirely sided with safety glass.
I believe he means remotely. Which I do, against advisement, through an extra step.
But Oz has explained repeatedly they have no intent in being the ones to facilitate you walking away from a laser in use. And I totally get it.
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