Remote Desktop for monitoring

I have a garden shed that I've taken over, ran power to. and otherwise setup for my machine.
It house a smaller CNC machine that runs for hours at a time 3d profiling exotic hardwoods.
I'm curious how or if I can monitor or potentially remotely control the machine along with a webcam feed VIA a second linux box.
I know it can be done, but it seems the information is a bit scattered, and I'm not very Linux savvy.
Thanks for the help and sometime soon I'll post in the machine thread to show off my little setup

you can try teamviewer
or you control the complete machine with linuxcncrsh.

Norbert

Hi

You will probably have to look at the options and see which suits best.
These are just some 'generic' linux / linuxcnc ones

1) Tight VNC
2) axis-remote
3) ssh - X
4) linuxcncrsh
5) Just a simple webcam to monitor the machine rather than linuxcnc
6) A combination of webcam and 1-4

It just depends what you need to do remotely.
Do you want complete control of the machine in the shed from your house, or just want to be able to see what it is doing and if necessary halt a program and walk down the garden to sort it out.

regards

Thanks for the input guys.
I think being able to do Estop remotely is good enough since playing with feed-rates remotely isn't wise
A webcam feed would be nice to have so I can know if anything is going south, although I'm not sure where that puts latency figures at.

I will give it a shot shortly and see where that goes.
If it works the way I hope I'll be burying ethernet cable shortly

What limitations does it have I wonder?
My shed is connected to an outdoor GFI,
which goes through 100' of 12 gauge direct burial romex, goes through a 20 amp lightswitch, which finally reaches the shop.
I am thinking it's fine since it's far from being 1000' and it's not like I am using a noisy VFD or so forth.

I too have powerline plugs down to a workshop 200 ft away.

The major thing is that the plug connected to your router must be plugged into a proper ring main, not a spur or extension lead and definately not a surge protected extension lead.

It is also worth experimenting with which socket you use in the workshop, I plug mine in the opposite side from my machines with a short return loop straight back to the distribution board
which gives better bandwidth than other ones by the machines (there is always some noise)

I had to fit a filter between my mill and the mains socket, because the VFD was putting noise into the system, but after that no problems, broadband full speed and
I am able to ssh into both workshop computers from the house and remotely back up or even run them if I wanted to.

Worth a try

regards