on Unix. Linux, has a number of distro’s, the Pi, which used to be called Raspbian, with it’s roots in Debian. Liuns Torvalds created it mainly because of the high license cost of AT&T Unix…
There are other operating systems for the Pi, most are Linux based, but are high performance for applications that stream data for media. Most of these are Linux based, since it has a rich selection of ‘open source’, free code that support multi-media.
Setup another build of LightBurn Bridge and followed Stephan’s link for the setup. It works exactly the same as the previous Bridge build. Works wonderfully in everything but LightBurn Anyway, I think I’ve burnt enough cycles on this thing. I’ll just plug directly to my shop PC if i need the camera for something in the interim.
Thanks to everyone for the help!
EDIT:
I gave it one last try, and… success! The virtual cam that comes built into OBS just does not work with my setup, for whatever reason. Anyway, I installed the OBS virtual cam drivers , the ones they developed prior to bundling into the app itself, and well, those work. It gave me 4 target cameras and an option under the tools menu for picking which camera to use as the virtual cam. Once I did that, I had an image and everything was groovy.
I just got my second laser and I will be using ligthburn on it.
This is my first time using ligthburn and also the first time setting up my own Raspberry as a bridge.
I don’t know how many of you are still having issues with ligthburn not detecting OBS but I was able to find a fix for it, I am using windows 11 and a ligthburn camera. I also found a program that works better than OBS, at least for me. Just follow this instructions Lightburn does not recognize OBS virtual camera - #7 by LightBurn and install this software http://ip-webcam.appspot.com/
Is just like IP Cam Driver but free and also auto detects your camera resolution
One other thing of note. I had to switch back to the ‘default’ camera setup, instead of ‘custom’ in the LightBurn settings menu, after adding the OBS plugins to OBS studio.
It’s so nice having the camera work, hah. No more guess work for placement.
I just had the lid shut, hence the overly odd angle, hah. As for OBS, I had to install the older virtual cam drivers, not the virtual camera that’s now bundled in the latest version. For whatever reason, they work for me.
I went a different direction on the camera. I am trying USB over IP software. Then using client software on my computer to act as if the USB camera is directly plugged in to my PC.
This guide didn’t work perfectly for me as when I downloaded the server file it went to a different directory. I did also have to change the file properties. I’m still testing it out so I’m not saying it is a success, but things look good at this time.
@Clifford2938 It feels good to just have some progress, right? Hah. I considered using an IP cam, but after finally getting it to work with the usb camera, there was no need. I do have a new problem though, after updating LightBurn, my camera image doesn’t properly map to my LightBurn grid in the viewport. It’s skewed. Also, when I try to send a file to the Laser via the Bridge, it times out, unless I stop OBS and disable the camera stream to LightBurn. Once OBS isn’t running, LightBurn will happily send the file via the bridge. Not sure if something under the hood changed, or if I’ve inadvertently changed something.
Anyway, still patiently awaiting the official LightBurn cam solution!
It would be nice to have an integrated solution. So far I’m having good results. I think that asking a raspberry pi to encode a video plus serve as a controller or bridge between the controller and PC is too much.
I’m guessing that it is less intensive for the pi to just send the usb data over the network. So far the only issue I’m having is that if my computer goes to sleep I have to disconnect and reconnect to the camera. Then disable and then enable the camera in Lightburn.
Plus it’'s free with no ads.
Hope you figure out what the issue is with your setup.
Hello,
After difficulties to set it up, I finally found the solution for me (and probably for others in the same situation), as I could see my stream on OBS but no image on Lightburn. Then, I found a clear and easier solution to install everything on my Pi (I’m a total begginer with raspberry).
Hi, after reading the whole thread, I have my camera working on the browser at the raspi address: http://192.168.1.20:8080/?action=stream, the camera service restarts fine with the raspi etc etc
but
When I install the IP Camera Adapter 4.9, it detects the stream and its resolution just fine, but its not shown in lightburn. The docs say that you need to check firewall and I went there and not found a single entry referencing the IP camera.
Did you had to do something else to make this program work?
Yes, I’m much more Windows oriented than I am Linux.
