I would also like to help with testing.
I have a fiber laser 50W JPT with Sino Galvo and a Co2 laser with Galvo, Ezcad 2
Glad to PN
What kind of wireshark specific settings if any on the USB capture would you need.
hey guys i have a 20W Raycus with ezcad2 controller i would love to help you guys test and offer any settings that may be of help 
Thereās not really anything you can send me that would be helpful at this point. We are quite literally flooded with requests to test what we have, and we still have a ton of work to do to get EzCad2 boards fully supported, and get to feature equivalence (or close) with EzCad2.
The Wireshark capture process is extremely incremental - I touch something, do a capture. Change a small thing, do another capture, compare them, try to work out how the captures represent the numbers that changed, and what those things mean, and so on. I canāt just tell you what to capture - I honestly donāt know yet.
For everyone offering to test, please understand that what we need right now is time, not testers, and while I understand you mean well, flooding our inbox with requests to test this is taking time away from development.
What we have is early, and functional, but we have a good chunk of work ahead still. As we get closer to an actual release, and need to test more broadly, we will announce an āopen callā for testers. Until then, unless you have a relatively unique setup or workflow, weāre probably covered.
Also please understand that testing means you have time to use it quite a lot, and are willing to take detailed notes about whatās missing or broken, and submit those notes to help us track down issues. Testing does not mean āuse it normally, just before everyone else.ā
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Just watched Laser Everythingās live stream from a couple days ago, testing it out. Looks great! Going to be sooooooo nice! Thank you so much Lightburn Team for bringing this to us. I literally donāt even want to touch the fiber laser until this gets released! From the looks of it, the way it sits right now, itās 100x more useable than EZCad 
You guys are just flat out badass!
Wow!
Change setting, capture, review, beat-head-against-wall, update code, test, rinse & repeat.
Add in firmware versions and the ad-hoc nature of software. Iām also assuming software was developed outside of US (or English speaking country) and just WOW, this is a MAJOR project.
As a funny aside, I āfundedā a Kickstarter project awhile back for USB capture device. Iām sure we all know how that project ended. Sadly, the only project on Kickstarter that Iāve āfundedā and was delivered is EEV Blogās Multimeter (121GW?). Which as a āDIYer/Tinkerā seems rock solid and has proven to be great product.
If there is a best-tester list, Iād love to help. Iāve prior experience reverse engineering code and systems. At one point I even made my own MiTM ISO 7816 data logger using a custom circuit board and microcontroller. My day job is in IT. My lasers are tools I use for side-projects. Plenty of experience finding and documenting how to reproduce issues, yadda yadda. (EZ-CAD 2.14.x, JPL 50W)
How much for the Alpha version? Name your price! 
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I just took delivery of the M1 (Mr. Carve) fiber laser from Kickstarter. Iāve used Lightburn with my diode and CO2 lasers and wondered whether it will work with the M1??? The M1 comes with SeaCAD which appears to be a derivative of EZCAD. Not great software. More on the M1 here:
SeaCad is made by BSL, which weāre planning to support as well. Theyāre actually working with us, so we have partial PC / Linux support, but Iāve been pushing harder on the EzCad support since many more people have that hardware.
Posting to keep the thread alive.
I was going to try and hold off ordering a fiber until this comes out so we donāt have to learn a new workflow, and have to use Windows (right?), but the urge is getting strong. Adding another Windows and Mac developer and OS/application QA and beta tester to the wait list. 
Not sure how far along he is but Bryce Schroeder has been working on an open source tool for fiber lasers:
https://www.bryce.pw/engraver.html
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His doesnāt have a UI, which would likely be a sticking point.
Weāre still on track for a release in Q2 of this year.
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So glad this is coming. I make my living with Lightburn on my CO2 laser. I just canāt figure out EZCad2. Way to confusing and you have to put in SO MUCH EFFORT. My wallet is ready, Canāt wait for a truly useful program to run my fiber laser on. Thanks for taking on this enormous challenge. I personally know of over 20 other fiber owners who are excited for the release and ready to subscribe. Keep sane my friends!
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Dear Lightburn-Team,
please announce a beta soon!
EZCAD is driving me nuts 
Best regards,
Michael
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My 30W (OMTech) fiber arrives tomorrow. Hereās to hoping the Lightburn for Galvo comes soon, or at least goes open beta.
Lightburn coming to Fiber is the only reason I didnāt drop $800 on a PC computer when I bought my fiber. Instead, I purchased Parallels to run EZCad on which was much cheaper. Canāt wait!
if you need a guy that breaks stuffā¦ and finds errorsā¦ let me knowā¦ I use mine daily for marking all kinds of metalsā¦ I have a Raycus 50w running on a MAC mini, in phx azā¦
thanks guys