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  • Nothing in the printlog - but glanced very quickly in the console before I had time to pause it was a few comms, one of which mentioned speedmultiplier? Not sure if the Wanhao is rebooting... never does it whilst I'm stood near...
  • Spoke too soon... Stopped about 2.5 hours in - so webcam was a red-herring :-) although obviously lasted longer without!
  • Disabling webcam seems to have cured it so I guess next step would be lower the time-lapse resolution etc to see if its to do with processing power required...
  • Well, PI failed again even with a powered hub for webcam. Gut feeling is that the overhead of time-lapse recording pushes it over the edge... Just trying again with webcam completely disabled and unhitched... seems to have already got further...but …
  • I did an experiment - fresh install on a spare Mac Mini and it got through the full 8 hours no problem. So now looking back at the PI - think I made a schoolboy error powering Logitech webcam directly from the PI. So introducing a powered USB hub a…