Suggestion to add to where the 'Webcam Surveillance' is located
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I've been using Octoprint for some time (several years on my Rep1+Sailfish & custom coreXY+RADDS/RRF). For about half a year now I've been using the Duet Web Control with my Tevo Little Monster / Duet conversion, and it's been great. In fact preferred to Octoprint. But great within the confines of my local home network.
Just today, I figured out how to both pipe my Raspberry Pi webcam to the DWC, and how to port forward the Duet (with password) to the web, just like Octoprint: I can now remotely (over the web) view/control my Duet prints, super awesome.
Suggestion : When viewing the DWC over my PC, or my phone, the "Webcam Surveillance" section is in the "Print Status" tab: It's completely detached from the buttons that control the printer motion itself: Suggestion to duplicate this view into the "Machine Control" section, so that I can both remotely see what the toolhead is doing, and control it from the same menus
Tip for anyone else who experienced this problem: While I could see the webcam stream fine from my pc, I had to include the 'http://' to the webcam address on my phone's DWC, or i'd just get a broken link symbol on that page. My PC's DWC didn't require that extra bit of text.
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Until this gets incorporated in the web interface, or just in case it never does, try this:
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Power off the Duet, and put the SD card from the Duet in a computer where you can edit things.
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Find the '/www' directory and the file 'reprap.htm.gz'
NOTE: You will have to "un-gz" the file. Macs or Linux have utilities for this built in; on Winders (Texas edition of Windows) 7-Zip is one of several ways.
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Open the file in your favorite text editor (that can deal with unix line ends). The screen shots are from 'sublime text', which I HIGHLY recommend on any platform.
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Find "Webcam Survelliance". Copy the lines that are highlighted in this picture. (Yes, this misses a closing </div>, we will get that later).
- Find "User-Defined Macros". This will get you very near where you need to insert the block of code. Paste/Insert on the blank line between the two big blocks of 'div' tags. In my picture, line 1169. (Your line numbers may vary).
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Add a closing '</div>' tag, just below what you pasted.
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Save the file, re-gz compress it, and replace it in the /www directory on the SD, replace in Duet, and power up.
That's it, you now have your webcam on your machine status page.
NOTE: One oddity of copying this code is that things end up named the same. Therefore, the Webcam sub-window can only be expanded/collapsed from the Print Status page (it will open/close both).
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And, of course, you don't really have to edit from the SD. You can "unpack" a zip of the web interface, do the edits, "pack it back up" and upload it the regular way.
That's just a little more complex, because there are '.gz' files embedded in zips, sometimes in sub-directories of zips, and it is easy to get lost.
Still, you should know the option exists.
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Sorcery!
Great tip, I'll give that a shot.However, this would have to be repeated any time I did a DWC update, right?
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@ak-eric said in Suggestion to add to where the 'Webcam Surveillance' is located:
However, this would have to be repeated any time I did a DWC update, right?
Correct. Hopefully, Christian Hammacher will include it. Seems easy enough. If not, yep, you'd have to tweak it after every update.
