Mac + Ruida 320 not connecting

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@jkwilborn

I thought it has to be transmitted by Lightburn using the udp protocol… or else my t-link wifi bridge would not have worked, which was purchased from Amazon for $12… Nor would it work when I directly plug it into my pc via Ethernet.

Different architecture in that case. Yes, it would be UDP from computer all the way through.

@jkwilborn

maybe the UDP translation occurs at the PI

This. I don’t know the exact content of what’s sent from computer to Bridge but it’s done with TCP.

More info from Oz here:

There was a problem sending data to the laser

Ruida was the first, but it would not be terrifically difficult to add LightBurn Bridge support for Trocen controllers as well, and that would solve the issue - The bridge uses TCP to communicate with LightBurn, and UDP to talk to the laser. We’ve set it up to allow different protocols. It’ll take some time to implement, but it’s on the agenda. Aside from that, there’s nothing that’s really going to prevent packet loss. You could try using a PowerLine adapter - That would let you connect the…

He implies that it’s open to other protocols as well so don’t see why a USB output wouldn’t be possible.

@jkwilborn

One monitors the systems

How does this work? Could you run the monitoring software on the Bridge?

@jkwilborn

I was always hoping that a .deb package would show up

I haven’t done any digging into it but I can’t imagine it would be too hard to isolate the Bridge specific customizations from a base Pi OS image. Although that would take away from the appliance-like intention of the product. Also would still limit you to ARM devices at a minimum.