My Ender 3 v2 3D Printer does not have a webcam to remotely check 3D prints. Sometimes when I am not at home I need to see how things are going. I thought a simple webcam solution would do the trick. I grabbed my older Raspberry Pi (RPi 2) and set it up as a remote web camera. Hardware and Software So here is the hardware I am using: Raspberry Pi 2 (I suppose it should work with any SBC) Wifi dongle (you don’t need it if you have buil-in wifi or you want use an ethernet cable instead) Usb web camera (of course it would also work with a raspberry pi camera) I have the following software installed and configured:

What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds. Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.