My old laser’s controller died, so I ordered a new one. This is a RDC8445S, as the 6445 was not available at a decent price at the time. While waiting for the new controller to be delivered I worked on another machine with a 6445. I tried the Lightburn bridge and found it very easy to work with, no …

From what I understand, the current releases of Lightburn are not compatible with the 8445 controller. The upcoming 2.1 release is suppose to be functional with it. Try the 2.1 release candidate. [image] Is Lightburn now fully compatible with Ruida 8445 controller? LightBu…

Hi Tim, Thanks for replying. You are fast! I already tried the release candidate without success. For as far as I understand anything about networking (not an expert by far), the bridge only translates the UDP protocol to TCP. So the only thing I can think of is that the 8445 uses a different pro…

Not sure what the issue is, I just remembered seeing that post and found it for you. If you use the search button you might find a more in depth explanation of the issue.

Thanks, appreciate your help. I think I have read everything there is to find on the topic of the 8445 on this forum, even before buying it ;). I have done some deeper digging and from what I found it seems that the 8445 has indeed changed its protocol from UDP to TCP/IP. So that clarifies why the …

OK, I do not know what I did wrong the last time I tried this, but now that I tried again I can connect the machine to WiFi, tell Lightburn its IP address and it simply works. That was a lot of time wasted because I apparently did something wrong the previous time(s). Of course it only works with th…

I have ethernet and wifi working on the 85445s along with usb.. Using the candidate release 2.1 rc v9 of lightburn.. I decided to give it a crack a week ago.

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