We are just getting into the laser cutter game and bought an Acctek AKJ1325 (4ft x 8ft 300 watt CO2 laser) machine seems ok so far, it comes with a camera (SV300 NEW) I cant seem to get it to work, it pickups up that a camera is installed but will not show an image (it is plugged in to both the laser and the computer). Any ideas? I know that people say that support for mounted cameras is a bit limited but i know the Ruida SV300 seems to be reasonably popular so i am assuming it should work.
Any help that anyone can provide would be great, if you need more details just ask
The basic problem seems to be it’s an IP camera, rather than the USB cameras currently supported:
It might be possible to gimmick something with OBS to turn the IP stream into a simulated USB camera, but that could become an infinite time sink compared to just buying a USB camera and moving on.
Thanks Ed, I figured as much. The Ruida Controller is an RDV6445G (EC). Any thoughts on how “soon” soon might be? just asking because I have been reading the forum about the SV300 camera and it seems that it’s been over a year that people are talking/asking for this to be implemented so was just curious. I really like LightBurn so far (I find it much easier than RD Works/RD Vision)
I’m not an insider, so I have no opinions. My guess is they have more pressing things keeping them off the streets at night.
I absolutely depend on my camera for layout work, as does @bernd.dk, so I’d conjure a USB camera and get it mounted, rather than wait for a better solution.
The only catch with your huge laser will be finding a camera with a large enough field of view, then anchoring it firmly to the ceiling / rafters / infrastructure over the middle of the platform.
Which let me fiddle around until the right answer appeared on the screen.
You’ll surely need an active + powered USB extension cable to get all the way up there. The trick is to inject the power at the camera end, rather than depend on the PC to get it right:
I haven’t used that, but seems plausible.
Another choice with a shorter cable might be a head-mounted camera, although that’s been “in beta” basically forever.
Show us pix, because we loves us some big machine action around here!
ok thats awesome and I think may help. Just a question, right now I have a usb cable coming from the laser (connected to the camera the one you referenced as a CAT5) but I guess what you are suggesting would be replacing that, only question is would I connect the new camera overhead like you said to this USB active extension and then connect to the USB port on the computer beside the laser and then go through the process of the camera registration in LightBurn (essentially its like an overhead cut camera and thus rendering the SV300 essentially useless?)
If it were my laser (), I’d leave the SV300 and all its cabling untouched, so it continues to work with whatever software likes it, then nail a shiny new USB camera to the ceiling and wire it directly to the PC running LightBurn.
Verily: Messeth not with working stuff, lest thou make retrograde progress.
Then do the camera lens calibration / alignment dance with LightBurn, which will inevitably require standing on the laser platform and swearing, and away you go.
Because the image correction depends on having the camera not move, you must also ensure no parts of the camera can move, including the lens:
Aaaaand expect some USB jank no matter how careful you are with the cabling:
Although I haven’t done so, a blob of hot melt glue locking that teeny JST connector in place seems like a Good Idea™.
