Hello. First post here. I’m new to the laser world and am enjoying discovering my red and black Chinese laser. Lightburn is working great with my Mac laptop as is my Lightburn camera. With that said I can’t seem to connect with RD Works either with USB or Ethernet. I’m using Parallels to connect with RD Works 8 and continue to get the communication failure error. Some things to note:
a. I close LB when using Parallels;
b. My controller is the KT332N;
c. I’ve downloaded both RD Works and the driver.
d. RD Works shows a list of controllers in the drop-down menu. The closest it has to the KT332N is KT633X. I’ve tried them all—nada.
For USB, have you made the hardware serial port on the Mac side available as a virtual port?
For ethernet, are you able to ping the controller from the VM? If not, it won’t connect. You’ll need to resolve any IP assignment and routing issues first.
@ednisley has one of these controllers, I’m sure he’ll drop in and tell you which controller he’s using in his device…
If you have the option, forget usb… Ethernet is the only good way to go with these… no driver issues or anything else, standard Ethernet…
The Ruida comes with an IP of 10.0.3.3 and may need to be changed unless you are on that domain or have some type of bridge across the two different domains…
You can change the IP via the Ruida machine console, access with the Z/U key → ip
If you put the Ruida on your lan, can the OS see it?
I use arp-scan to scan my lan, I’m sure you can find it around for the mac for free…
If your os can’t find it, I doubt Lightburn will find it…
Thanks for the replies. I purchased the machine used—no software came with. Jack. Is that what you’re asking? The KT6332n is not in the controller options.
Only reason I had to go into RD works was to update the firmware so I could set up my roller properly. Probably the last time I’ll go into RD works.
I’m away from my laser right now. When I get back, I’ll work on the Ethernet settings. Right now, no connection—but the ruida controllers reports LAN On.
