Can I connect multiple cameras to one printer in SimplyPrint?
Can I connect multiple cameras to one printer in SimplyPrint?
Short answer: no. SimplyPrint currently supports one camera per printer, regardless of which integration the printer uses. This article explains the limitation, what camera options you have for each printer type, and where to vote for multi-camera support as a future feature.
The one-camera-per-printer rule
Every printer in SimplyPrint has a single camera slot. Only one camera can fill that slot at a time. This applies to:
- Bambu Lab printers (using the built-in chamber camera)
- OctoPrint-connected printers
- Klipper printers running Moonraker (Mainsail, Fluidd, or KlipperScreen)
- Prusa printers via PrusaLink / Prusa Connect
- AutoPrint-connected printers
- Any printer using a USB or IP camera through a SimplyPrint client
The live feed, snapshots, timelapses, and AI Failure Detection features all use the one camera assigned to that printer. There is no second feed, no picture-in-picture, and no secondary camera slot.
Why this isn't about your hardware
Some users (correctly) point out that the underlying firmware or integration can handle more than one camera. That's true:
- OctoPrint has several community plugins that expose multiple webcams in its native UI.
- Klipper via Moonraker (Mainsail, Fluidd) can register and stream from several
[webcam]entries at once. - Bambu Lab printers have a built-in chamber camera which SimplyPrint reads via the Bambu client.
In all of these cases SimplyPrint can only read one camera per printer at a time. If your printer or integration exposes multiple cameras, you choose which one SimplyPrint should use, and the others are not shown in the panel.
What you can do today
Pick which camera SimplyPrint uses
For each printer you can have one of the following as its camera, depending on what the integration supports:
- The built-in printer camera (e.g. Bambu Lab chamber cam, Prusa MK4S/Core One built-in cam)
- A USB camera connected to the SimplyPrint client (the device running the SimplyPrint software for that printer)
- An IP camera that the client (OctoPrint, Mainsail/Fluidd, etc.) can read and forward to SimplyPrint as JPEG frames
In every case the panel ends up with one feed per printer.
Use one SimplyPrint "printer" per camera as a workaround (advanced)
If you genuinely need two separate feeds for the same machine (for example, one cam pointed at the nozzle and one at the build plate), the only current workaround is to register the second camera against a separate printer entry in SimplyPrint. This is not officially supported and has clear downsides:
- The second "printer" counts toward your printer slot on your plan.
- The second printer won't reflect real print state, since only one entry is actually connected to the printer's controller.
- AI failure detection, snapshot history, and timelapses on the second printer entry won't be meaningful, since that entry doesn't know about the running print.
We list this only for completeness. In almost all cases, picking the single most useful camera and using that is the better choice.
Vote for multi-camera support
Multi-camera support per printer is tracked as a public feature request. If this is important to you, please upvote it so we can weight it against other requests:
Vote for multi-camera support on the SimplyPrint suggestions board
When and if this ships, it will replace the workaround above with first-class support for multiple cameras tied to a single printer, including for snapshots, timelapses, and the live feed.
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Updated on: 25/05/2026
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