I knew the A1 mini's camera was useless even before I bought my first 3D printer, so I quickly installed a Raspberry Pi 4 with OctoPi and OctoEverywhere, but I had not counted on having to let all the lights on almost all the time (it is winter) to see anything of what was going on. With the noIR (or compatible camera) light is optional. (Learning first TinkerCAD (meh) and then Fusion 360 (a little) and printing my own models is incredibly gratifying.)