Lightburn will not communicate with Monport 40w

LightBurn Hardware Compatibility
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Hi, I’m new to both Lightburn and to laser burning. I’ve just taken delivery of a Monport 40w CO2 laser engraver/cutter which I bought from Monport U.K. as “Lightburn ready”. I installed the machine in Lightburn as per the Monport instruction manual and have connected to it using my MacBook Pro running Monterey and the supplied USB cable. The problem I have is that Lightburn will not control the Monport, despite the Monport being recognised and installed. As an example, I manually move the laser heads to the centre of the work space and then click “Home” and nothing happens. This is the same if I try to burn something. Any help would be really appreciated! Thanks!

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Perhaps previous discussions will be informative:

https://forum.lightburnsoftware.com/search?q=mac%20monterey

You can sort by date and work backwards.

OEM USB cables are typically junk. Buy one with ferrite cores from a known-good source, throw the OEM cable in the trash, and prevent a whole bunch of heartache & confusion.

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Thanks for the advice. I’ll do just that! :+1:t2:

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Thanks everyone, problem solved! I needed to select “cu.usbserial-1410” in the laser control box! :roll_eyes:

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