Turn off webcam?

[origamimavin 0]

I've noticed in multiple versions of Cura, whenever it's printing, my laptop webcam light comes on. Even if I have the timelapse turned off, it's occupying my webcam, which means I can't Skype while it's printing. Is there some way to turn off the webcam within Cura?

 

[mr.-waldorf 0]

Don´t use usb to print, use the Sd card.

 

[origamimavin 0]

I'm using a reprap. I'd have to install an SDcard reader and I think update my firmware to support it. Is there any way to do it within the software?

 

[Daid 306]

http://software.ultimaker.com/Cura_closed_beta/

Grab the 14.02-RC, this no longer has the webcam feature in the print dialog.

 

[origamimavin 0]

Perfect! Thanks Daid, I'll give it a test run tomorrow!

 

[jluscher 0]

Thanks from me too. I'm running 14.01 (stable) under the wine Windows emulator on Linux - and getting a crash, which I trace back to Cura/gui/util/webcam.py/vidcap.pyd in the backtrace. Cura is able to detect my controller (ttyUSB0) but seems to not play well with the Linux webcam under wine's emulation.

I was hoping the stable release would avoid other problems - now it looks like I'll have to grab it as soon as it is out.

James

diagnostic image: http://ubuntuone.com/26EJrLnsjM9NxS4FbbrJIq

 

[Daid 306]

Thanks from me too. I'm running 14.01 (stable) under the wine Windows emulator on Linux - and getting a crash, which I trace back to Cura/gui/util/webcam.py/vidcap.pyd in the backtrace. Cura is able to detect my controller (ttyUSB0) but seems to not play well with the Linux webcam under wine's emulation.

I was hoping the stable release would avoid other problems - now it looks like I'll have to grab it as soon as it is out.

James

diagnostic image: http://ubuntuone.com/26EJrLnsjM9NxS4FbbrJIq

Use the linux release ;-)

RC7 for Debian/Ubuntu is very stable and will be made official soon.

http://software.ultimaker.com/Cura_closed_beta/