Hello,
New to this software and laser. I have a shapeoko 5 pro engraver and added a laser to it. The upgrade is from J-Tech and its a 24 watt pro model. They recommended Lightburn to drive the machine. My operating system is a HP laptop running windows 10. The problem I’m having is I setup the machine in lightburn for GRBL and saved it. Closed down lightburn, started the machine, restarted lightrburn and laser status says ready. If I go to the console tab it says waiting for connection then connection failed port is already in use. Thats as fare as I get. Opened up Device manager in windows and the port is showing my Shapeoko 5 pro connected. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
For those of you having the same problem, I read this on the J-Tech website and did exactly as the steps stated and now it connects and managed to do a test piece.
On the Shapeoko5 machine there have been some customers who will see connection issues in Lightburn (no connecting) in some cases. Here is a specific startup procedure you can use to help.
- Make sure you have nothing open on your computer. Exit Lightburn and Carbide motion.
- Turn the machine on. If it was already on, then cycle the machine so it is fresh.
- Open Carbide Motion and Initialize the machine. Wait for it to initialize.
- Close Carbide Motion.
- Open Lightburn. Make sure you have the correct COM port selected.
- It should now connect in Lightburn.
Not sure why this is needed sometimes, but it seems to solve the issue.