Lightburn instaler to see if FTDI driver is installed

[Desert_Wookworker (James L Traskos)]

my Thunder laser requires a FTDI installer to be added. Thunder recommends using the Lightburn installer. If so how do I do this?

[berainlb (PY)]

On Windows systems LightBurn offers an option of installing the FTDI driver at the end of the installation process. Select that option when installing to get the driver.

If you’re on Mac Apples ships a driver but it may not work and may also interfere with a separately installed FTDI driver. More information here:

The laser does not appear to be considered connected

Ruida uses an FTDI device for the serial/USB connection, and the serial port driver that Apple ships with macOS interferes with the FTDI driver. You can watch how to fix the USB / Mac port thing here: You can also connect via Ethernet, (a little more involved, but not a huge setup effort) which is very solid and does not have these issues.

You may want to consider using Ethernet for your connection instead of USB in any case.

[Desert_Wookworker (James L Traskos)]

Thx I already have LB installed. How do I reinstall LB?

[berainlb (PY)]

1. Download LightBurn
2. Install
3. Check FTDI driver at end of installation