Creality Nebula Camera. Some great features!

[@martslittlediyshop8670]

I have had the Nebula camera for six months now and connected it to my Sonic pad. Works perfectly, night vision AI, Timelapsing and via web interface downloading. A must have. Great video!

[@CurryKitten]

You have web interface downloading for the timelapse? Different web interface then?

[@martslittlediyshop8670]

The camera as well as my Ender 3 V2 are linked to my Creality Sonic pad running on clipper. I access this on my laptop in the browser via the local IP address. It's opening Fluidd (Sonic pad) Here I can control the printer and everything you can do with Clipper including rendering your Timelapse in mpeg4 format and downloading it.@@CurryKitten

[@robvanes2144]

My Nebula cam and Sonic pad don't do spaghetti detection. Creality support told me that it is not yet supported for this combination. Support will be in the next firmware release. You have the same combi, detection does work?

[@martslittlediyshop8670]

On the Sonic pad you can turn on the AI ​​in other settings and make further adjustments. Indeed, it indicates that it is experimental. I haven't tested it myself yet, I'll make a spaghetti pot tomorrow and see what happens. Thank you for your comment.

[@twisted12o13]

Ohh, thank you so much for the video! I came here because I thought I was doing something wrong when the timelapses of failed prints didn’t show up, but thanks to you, I can now recover them. Greetings from Chile! Very good videos, congratulations!

[@vikkidyer]

Cant wait to watch more of your ender v3ke videos. Im still a beginner so these videoare great for me thanks xx

[@echobeefpv8530]

I used Octoprint and Octolapse to get to about the same place. They take over the printer with a Raspberry PI, and do about the same things. Very cool, watching your own time lapse videos ! Also a learning experience.

[@Id10tRex]

Mine caught a spaghetti on the dot. Stoped the printer and i woke to no giant mess. Good job.😊

[@CurryKitten]

Great stuff - mine has done one where it stopped on a false alert, but aside from that it's been golden.

[@J0kerVision]

hey Curry, Glad to see the first video on the search was yours! i just upgraded my old cr-10 to the new CR-10 SE and creality gave me a £20 gift card for the review so ordered on of these cameras. Glad you gave it a thumbs up! Defo in love with the new printer though, and keep up the good work LDO OG !

[@CurryKitten]

Hey - yeah I like being able to monitor what's happening and grab the time lapses. Have fun with it!

[@MCsCreations]

Fantastic review, Wayne! 😃 Pretty interesting camera indeed! Works pretty well! Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@CurryKitten]

Cheers MC!

[@chidswick]

You can actually root these nebula systems to run Klipper / Fluidd . mainsail etc... i use one, have all the features of creality plus the added bonus of it rooted to klipper. Also binned off the silly camera mount and designed my own to sit on the X gantry for ender 3v2 (its on thingiverse)

[@emreaytur9303]

Can I check the camera when I am not in the same network with printer by using mobile app? Does it share over creality cloud?

[@CurryKitten]

Yes - it's the one thing I do like about creality cloud

[@TheDoctot]

i have the same cam but it runs at 1-3 fps how can i fix that?

[@MarkoVukovic0]

If you use the Creality Print software, open the details page and then select the file on the bottom-left, you can export the video from there as MP4. Several people have designed a mount to attach the camera to the gantry, a much better option.

[@CurryKitten]

I'll have a look at that. I've pretty much moved over to using Prusaslicer, but it would be handy to be able to grab the video a little easier.

[@carlosparmentier]

hey, do you have defect detection and first layer detection as activated? i cant see good if is actived or not on your video but i have Ender 3 ve KE and i cant activate first layer detection and motion advance, it says "no lidar detected". what you think? thank you

[@GeoffSeeley]

There are also firmware updates for the Nebula camera.

[@wellingtonbomb633]

i am using orca slicer as i cannot get into the creality site ( don't ask ) what camera can i use as i need to stop the printer in emergencies if i am not home

[@CurryKitten]

You need to use Creality Cloud to remotely view your camera... unless you setup a camera, connect it to the network, and use some other software to provide access. As for what this softwarte would be, I don't know, but there's lots of stuff out there

[@AllCreativeGaming]

I can never find the Creality print like like browser that you have

[@ReggieRailSystems]

Very Nice, I wish I could configure it to work with my 4-year old Creality CR-6SE.

[@CurryKitten]

Yeah - shame. I was just looking and they do the little console screen with the camera as well, but it seems only compatible with the Ender family of printers

[@mjstratford]

I was wondering if anyone can help me I am having issues trying to gett the time lapse that looks like fluid , mine just seems to be scattered , Ender 3 v 3KE and nebula.

[@austinostergaard2187]

How did you get the creality print app to recognize the camera, and how do you get your time lapses to look so good?

[@CurryKitten]

It's not that the app recognises the camera as such, more that the printer does. So when the app interfaces with the printer, the printer gives it a video stream as well. The timelapses are an automatic thing by creality as well, so the printer takes a snapshot every layer. It could be done slightly better if the printer could put the extruder and bed in the exact same position before it took the screen shot, but it's not bad as is

[@majkelsobieraj8589]

that cam just drop my nebula pad randomly; with no cam 48h prints go gr8 after pluging it via usb to nebula pad -> crashes randomly

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

4:10 "so it doesn't dry out" eeeeeehehehehehe I wonder how hard this would be to integrate onto one of their older printers 🤔

[@CurryKitten]

Yeah - obviously filiment absorbs water when left out, but it makes PLA so brittle that it always feels like it's dried out too much! As for the camera, they sell it with the console which I guess could intergrate into an older printer - but I've not checked that out properly

[@Tim2716]

I have a question, I haven’t yet bought the camera, but I am considering on buying it, I own an Ender 3 V2, which doesn’t appear to be compatible with the camera, but the camera itself can connect via USB, by any chance, would the camera work if plugged into a computer, rather than being plugged into a 3-D printer?

[@CurryKitten]

I'm afraid the camera wire is all routed under my printer right now, so can't easily test. The answer at a guess is probably, but all the AI stuff seems linked in to the firmware on the printer itself - so I don't think you'd get any special features from it.

[@Tim2716]

@@CurryKitten I don’t need any of the AI features, all I need is the ability to run time lapses. Thank you for the information.

[@CurryKitten]

The timelapse feature is a host initiated thing, so you'll need something on the PC end that could do so. What the printer does is take a single screen shot on every layer and combines it into a movie. SO the webcam isn't doing anything on it's own as such

[@Tim2716]

@@CurryKitten that’s ok

[@AnnetteDeVries-h8e]

Does someone know if this camera works on a Ender3-V2?

[@CurryKitten]

According to the product page, it's not listed as being compatible

[@umbrella141984]

how to make for ender 3 v3 plus

[@CurryKitten]

The product page says it should work on the Ender 3v3, I don't know if that extends to the plus. You might need to ping Creality that question

[@KateKosmo]

Does this work with the ender 3 s1 pro?

[@CurryKitten]

According to the product website, it's not listed as being compatible - but I know people are using webcams with their S1's, so it's perhaps worth asking Creality to check

[@KateKosmo]

@@CurryKitten yeah I found out it's only compatible with the sonic pad. They do have an older webcam version specially made for the older ender 3 models called creality smart kit 2.0.

[@kennykobi]

Can you use this with any printer with a USB c port?

[@CurryKitten]

No - it really depends what your printer is running as you need some sort of software implementation to talk to the camera and set it up as a USB camera as well as talking to it about possible alerts.

[@De4dB33f]

This camera is regular UVC camera, like almost any other webcam. The only difference is night view. There is no any AI inside the camera itself.

[@CurryKitten]

Yes - it doesn't seem like anything special. I did try a few webcams with the printer, but none gor recognised. At lest they aren't charging a premium for it

[@Missterpaja]

Do it work?? I mean somebody say AI detection sucks.

[@CurryKitten]

Worked for me. It stopped a print that went all spaghetti. Obviously peoples milage may vary on this

[@ronnyspanneveld8110]

Just what u want sending your video feed to a cloud china :P

[@CurryKitten]

If China really want a picture of small pieces of PLA being printed then they can knock themselves out. Of course you don't have to use Creality Cloud, and you can scp the video file from your printer direct to the desktop if you want to

[@AnotherOpinionatedIdiot]

My camera is giving me the lidar error. I see that there is an updated firmware that was uploaded in February. I will have to download it and see if that makes a difference.