Can't get camera to work

Bambu Lab P1 Series
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Hi, I’m new, just got my P1P yesterday, blown away by the printer mechanics!

Trying to get the livestream working on the camera, but there’s no “Go Live” option on the Camera Setting menu in the Device page in Bambu Studio. The Video and Timelapse icons have a red dot on them, not sure what that means.

I can press the “Play button” at the bottom of the video screen on the same page and I get a series of stills which update once or twice a second, certainly not video.

Any idea what i’m doing wrong? Ultimately i want to be able to stream the video out on OBS or something like that which I’ve seen done on Youtube, but maybe that’s just with the X1C?

I’ve checked the forums, Reddit etc, but get conflicting messages.

Any help appreciated!

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Works as intended.
The camera for P1P is advertised with 0.5 frames per second.
So, if you want to shoot videos, you have to get a proper RTSP cam to get the video into OBS.

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OK, thanks - I guess I was looking at the X1C description before and assumed it would be similar. My fault.
Do you know whether it recognises a failed print and stops automatically? Or is that just a X1C feature too?
Thanks

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Not at the moment. Bambu Lab is working on a spaghetti detection for the P1P Chamber cam. It’s mentioned in the description of the cam in the shop.

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Thanks, appreciate the help.

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If you are using LAN only mode on the P1P you get a very fast stream that does look live.

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When doing LAN only mode, I still don’t get a video.

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isn’t it still choppy?? did you happen to install the X1C camera on a P1P?

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You can’t install X1C camera on P1P.

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How did you enable that? I can’t find the driver maybe?

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is your printer on the same subnet as the computer running bambu studio?

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No driver needed. Bambu Studio uses Microsoft Edge Webview2 for the video display.

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Thanks for the reply. I checked and Webview is installed, All I get is a red dot over the camera icon in the Device panel, and it’s not responsive. With the iPhone app I can see the choppy timelapse but no streaming. I tried opening a ticket to Bambu but I got an auto-reply about being short on staff and response delays are up to 3 days. I put the ticket in on Thursday and it was auto cancelled Sunday.

Sort of frustrating, so any ideas would be most welcome. Thanks all.

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I just re-read your first message. I am sorry that I did not answer the correct question in my last post.

You had time lapse and record turned on. (The red dots that you saw.) With time lapse on, you only see a series of still frames. You turn time lapse on or off in the print dialog when you send the model to print.

Using the image below, if you have a red dot on the video camera icon (red arrow) it means that time lapse is turned on. If you have a red dot on the web cam icon (orange arrow) it means that it is recording. (The icons do not really make sense to me.) The fourth icon lets you start and stop recording.

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You can turn recording on or off any time with the fourth icon in the image above.

There is also a setting to change whether timelapse is just a bunch of stop frames or if it moved the print head out of the way for each captured image. That is is the timelapse setting under Others.

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yEs, they are on the same wifi signal, same 2.4ghz network. same address
I can see lots of what should be timelapse video, or any video for that matter. But when I open it up, there is nothing there.

I use a MAC, if that makes a difference.

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After recording a timelapse video You will find a MJPEG encoded AVI file within the timelapse folder. To watch the video on macOS, you need a player (like https://iina.io), which is capable to play this format, or an encoder (like https://handbrake.fr), which can convert this video to a Quicktime Player compatible format.

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there is a small play button under the camera view. that will turn the video on but it is super laggy.

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For a way to stream P1S video feed, see