Question - converting USB only interface on laser to wifi or bluetooth

[berainlb (PY)]

If your board has exposed pads or pins for a serial connection you might be able to connect an ESP8266 to those and use IP with Wifi to connect. This would be basically the same as what LaserGRBL does. I suspect you’d want to use the Telnet to Serial model.

See here for reference:
WiFi with ESP8266 – LaserGRBL

Keep in mind that I have not seen anyone successfully using LightBurn with IP configuration on GRBL systems so far. Check here for background:

Xtool D1 WIFI connection with lightburn

So I have had light burn for couple years with home built grbl just bought a xtool D1 and renewed my light burn license because on request page lightburn said it could do Wifi now with the D1 and was marked as solved. I have tried connecting it by IP and cant get it to work. This is only reason I renewed my license so early was for this feature. Has anyone got this to work yet?

I have heard of Bluetooth Serial to USB modules and believe there are references to some successes on this forum for such setups. I think theoretically there could be a similar Wifi Serial to USB solution but have not seen any commercially available. I suspect a Raspberry Pi could be configured to behave this way but haven’t seen any examples of this.