Please add a camera splitter cable along with a second camera for top down viewing to the website as a buyable option
If only one camera is viewable at a time that’s totally okay, just add a swipe or an app button to switch screens from the phone app
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TLDR: Or at least include the ability to access an IP camera and use it for timelapse and video (maybe also the ability to use any camera recognized by the PC running Bambu Studio).
Longer explanation:
The inclusion of the camera in the X1 is fantastic for keeping an eye on prints but it’s location, position and FoV leave something to be desired for high quality timelapse. Many makers already have IP cameras, some of them high quality, but they have no good way to trigger the device or software to take advantage of the X1’s built-in timelapse functionality.
The capability to trigger effective timelapses from the slicer is something Bambu and only a few other companies are in the position to do because of their top-down ecosystems - your slicer and printer are in constant communication. Giving Bambu Studio the ability to capture timelapse using an IP camera would be a huge upgrade and could also have the added bonus of decreasing the processing required from the printer (instead of both streaming and recording the video/timelapse the printer just needs to stream it). This could also alleviate the issue of not being able to get timelapses off the printer except by taking out the Micro SD card since everything will be on the host PC.
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would love to have an API to the printer, so I can use it to trigger mirrorless cameras
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Did this ever become a thing? im looking to view my prints top down from the inside. stationary and attached to the extruder head and then 3 more for each corner from the original. can we make a spitter, software to support?
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