Lightburn USB/Machine interface poorly coded

No Diving! But seriously,
Lightburn isn’t open source and the release folder is the product that is available to customers. The source code isn’t even available to a clear majority of the LightBurn team, let alone enthusiasts or customers.

The confusion may be caused by the crackerjack Linux guys managing a library patch for gstreamer to Ubuntu 20.4 and 18.4 by telling the builder to build with one thing (gstreamer) from Ubuntu 16.4. It’s more of a ‘Hey LightBurn, while installing - look here for this book’ than anything else.

I learned a thing or two that day.

I appreciate the clarity here.

I would be interested to know which baud rates are selected in Candle and lasergrbl. Someone posted a while back that they had to hard set the baud rate to 115200 in LightBurn to connect with a particular Sculpfun or Atomstack. This is not shown to be necessary with a vast majority of Sculpfun devices. General USB noise and line length are considerably more common - You’ve clearly dispelled this. There is also a switch in LightBurn (in Device settings) to Enable DTR signal. I would also like to know if Candle and lasergrbl use DTR as part of their communication process.

115200 - confirmed here:

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