As per the title really. I bought a camera, my OS (Linux) sees it and can use it, but how do I get Lightburn to use it? Is there a setting somewhere I’m missing?
Lens Calibration window looks like this,
Edit > Settings > Camera looks like this,
Camera Control window looks like this
Am I missing a ‘Use the Camera’ setting somewhere?
Ver. 1.7.04 on Linux Mint 22.1
If your camera is listed in the LightBurn camera menu, you should be able to create a profile for this camera. If it is not listed in LB, I would recommend searching the forum for “camera+Linux/distro”, which will pop up many posts that will hopefully help you further.
The help section in LB also covers some of your questions.
My personal experience with Linux and LightBurn+camera is that I couldn’t get it to work under Mint and that “forced” me to switch to Ubuntu. But like with many other things, it depends on many factors and there are people here who could get it to work with Mint.
If you stick to LB’s own recommendations, which Distros are supported, you have the best chance, in my opinion.
Well it is listed, as you can see from my screenshots. How do I create a profile?
Try to see if it can help you, Camera not working in LightBurn 1.7.03 and Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
it’s the last posts that are extra interesting.
App Image, that’s interesting…
And there we have it! (The camera’s on my desk looking at me just now.
Thanks.
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I am very happy that your camera is now working. For me personally, the camera function is one of the most practical and used features in LightBurn. I hope that when you fine-tune your system, you may also be able to achieve a reproducible result of less than 0.5mm across your entire workbench/machine area.
Hi, I just want to say thanks again for your help. This camera is game changing. So easy to align things now.
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Your image is very clear, but it looks like it’s mirrored. You probably didn’t follow the alignment order (the last step with the numbered targets) or your camera is physically mounted 180 degrees rotated. 
Yeah, the camera is 180° out, but the cable is too short to mount it the other way so I just went with it. Once I’d done the alignment, Lightburn figured it all out and it’s fine. I have a proper bracket on order from my friendly local 3D printer. Once I get that I might flip it around so that the pictures match, but it’s not really an issue as it works just fine like this.
Right now it’s stuck to an aluminium business card and tucked behind the light:
…so try starting with no.3 instead of no.1 in your alignment
…it’s worth a try
But it’s correct as it is, why change it?
Here’s how it all looks. Lightburn screen, and that’s a photo of the machine at the lower right, same orientation. The photo in the small window is flipped but I can pretty much ignore that. The working area is correct, and that’s what matters.
It’s working well.
You don’t have to change the orientation at all if it suits your needs. I just noticed that the 2 windows don’t have the same orientation, which I found strange
…never touch a running system
Well it looks like I’ll be touching it soon anyway, the camera mount arrived from the 3D printer.
But there’s something missing…
It looks very similar to the original parts, it’s the screws and nuts and the M3 pat that are missing, unfortunately.
By the way, the original USB cable is often too short to reach the PC, when you buy an extension data USB cable you should be aware that it is of good quality and that it is not unnecessarily long. A powered USB “splitter” will also be able to do the job, but then there is another cable that needs power…
regards Bernd
I already have some M5 screws and nuts, I wasn’t expecting those to come with it. Not sure what M3 pat means… But shouldn’t there be two of those nut holders (for want of a better description)?
No big deal, the screws I’m using aren’t long enough to incorporate them anyway so I probably won’t use the one I do have. And I have a suitable socket; it’s not like they’ll need adjusting once set.
As for the cable, I have an active USB extension lead with a three-way splitter on the end of it which all seems to work pretty well.
