Get LightBurn job notifications on your phone

What you'll be told

In Settings › Notifications, under Notify me when, you choose the events:

• A job finishes — with its run time.
• A job is paused.
• The laser disconnects mid-job.
• A job starts.
• A job runs too long or stays paused.
• The laser is free again.
• LightBurn can't be read.
• Maintenance is due.

Messages include the job's file name when Beacon can read it.

Set up a Telegram bot

Telegram is free and works on any phone. Your bot is private: it only talks to the chat you link it to.

1. In Telegram, open a chat with @BotFather and send /newbot. Pick a name and a username for your bot.
2. BotFather replies with a token (a long line of letters and numbers). Copy it.
3. In Beacon, open Settings › Telegram bot and paste it into Bot token.
4. Send your new bot any message in Telegram (for example "hi").
5. Back in Beacon, press Find next to Chat ID. Beacon fills it in from your message.
6. Press Send test. A message should arrive on your phone within a few seconds.

Keep the token private: anyone who has it can send messages as your bot.

Control Beacon from your phone

Turn on Telegram commands and you can ask the bot:

• /status — what the laser is doing right now.
• /today, /report, /week — run time and jobs.
• /relays, /on fan, /off fan — see and switch relay buttons by name.
• /mute 2, /unmute — quiet alerts for two hours, or until you unmute.
• /photo — a webcam snapshot, if you've set up a camera.

Beacon only answers commands from your own chat.

Prefer something else?

• Discord, Pushover, email or SMS — under More channels in Settings, each with its own test button. Webcam snapshots can be attached when a job finishes.
• Desktop pop-ups — Windows or macOS notifications on the computer itself.
• Phone dashboard — a live status page any phone on your Wi-Fi can open, with your relay buttons and an optional PIN. No internet needed.
• Quiet hours — keep the phone silent at night; critical alerts such as a lost laser still get through.