In this part of the project, I setup a permanent home for CNCjs on a Dell Wyse 3040 thin client. I’m running CNCjs as the CNC control software and Gcode sender (the CNC’s grbl controller is actually doing the motion control). I’m using mjpgstreamer to add a USB webcam to the CNCjs web UI, with nearly no load on the CPU to encode. And I’ve setup a script to launch ffmpeg to record the mjpeg stream when gcode is started and stopped. As a cherry on top, I’m running all of this with systemd services so everything autostarts properly on boot without the hacky cron suggestions of the CNCjs docs.

Link to the blog post with all of the commands and scripts and such:
https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2022/cnc...

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:38 CNCjs Installation
07:47 Webcam Streaming
12:55 Recording
17:07 Test Run
18:11 CNC Zen

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