New MAC not seeing my Ruida Device (Boss 1630 CO2)

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I am usually pretty good at figuring things out, however, I am a bit stumped on this one.

I have a new 2024 MacBook Pro, M4 MAX, running Sequoia 15.5—

My old system was a mid 2010 MBPro (which connected perfectly over wifi)

I cannot get my system to see my laser. I can ping it successfully, but it will not show up in my devices list. It works fine on my wife’s laptop, also an MBPro (Late 2020). I have turned off my VPN, I have disabled my firewall, I have tried wifi and hardwire all to no avail. I have not tried USB because that’s not an option and there should be no reason for me not being able to connect via wifi as usual…

help

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If you can ping it, it must be there. You should double check to ensure the router isn’t duplicating it’s IP and assigning it to another device.

If you know it’s IP, then double check your device, in Lightburn, to ensure it’s correct.

Don’t know if you know that the Ruida is static… That’s about the only complication of handing one of these on your network.

If you mean you don’t see it on your Mac network, if you can ping it, it must be talking…

:smiley_cat:

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Thanks for the input, I will probably give it another go today… I will dig into my router today - hopefully I can figure this out. Its amazing that we are all having to become better at IT!

Thanks again. I will post my progress.

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People started out as hunter/gathers, then farming, then industry.

We are no longer in the industrial revolution, we are now in the data revolution. Can’t go back.

Virtually everything is cnc now, from my alarm clock and coffee maker to my spouses Subaru. All controlled by computer.

So I have to agree with you.

:smiley_cat:

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Still having an issue - can ping the laser, but lightburn will not talk to it. Unfortunately we are using a Spectrum router and they severely limit what you can do with them. I dont think its the issue thought because I can still use my other laptop without a problem. This is frustrating, I have a call into Boss to see if they know of a reason my system wont communicate.

I’ll keep trying!

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Turn the laser off, then try pinging it again. If something responds, then the router has plunked another device at the laser’s IP address: that won’t ever work.

This troublehooting tip may be relevant:

Have you migrated the LightBurn settings from the “working” laptop to the new one?

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Thanks Ed!
So when I received your suggestions my laser was already off - ping test PASS (no other device on the network with the same address)! Unfortunately I no longer had my problem child laptop in the shop so I had to wait until I got home to check the permission settings.
I think that is going to be the issue because sure enough, it was one of two programs that were disabled!
I will hold off trying to migrate from the working laptop unless changing the state of the permisson setting doesnt work.

Thanks for the input!!