Hello,
I use LB since years for my old GBRL laser,
Last week I brought a Topwisdom TL-A1 based 60W co2 laser
LB works great in SB mode …
But i think it’s a shame … because I need to use my laptop to control the laser …
the TL-A1 are connected to the office wifi, why it’s not possible to control it throught Wifi ? AutoLaser can but it’s a sh***** software …
It’s this hard to ad a wifi control to Lightburn, even more because it’s a paid ot cheap software… I see many people asking for it since years …
Also, I setup a Bridge raspberry, but he can’t control Topwisdom … only Ruida … WHY again ??? Is this hard to ad TL Support to bridge ??
So in fact, this laser can connet to a Wifi, Bridge can connect to a wifi … but none can communicate with LightBurn …
Seriously, it will take your 1 hour for a developper to ad wifi support … Even AutoLaser can do it FOR FREE …
I’m not intimately knowledgeable about the inner workings of Lightburn… but let me say a few things…
Lightburn was developed for Ruida controllers… As far as I know Lightburn doesn’t have a direct pipeline into Ruida (or Trocen) for information on the machines interface to the outside world.
The Ruida uses UDP for communications, it is a very low level communications mechanism with no error reporting or many of the things we expect in an Internet connection.
The Lightburn bridge was designed for the Ruida to handle some of these idiosyncrasies with UDP…
My understanding is both of these required a lot of time watching the data sent and the response of the device to develop the software to control them.
The Lightburn Bridge states “The LightBurn Bridge is a pre-configured Raspberry Pi that connects a Ruida controller to your WIFI network.” Emphasis added.
Seems rather specific to me… however both are dsp, so I can understand some confusion…
Your controller is not listed in the supported hardware list… “Supported Trocen controllers include the AWC708C, AWC608, and TL-3120.”
I’ve been around the Lightburn people long enough to know they go out of their way to make happy customer and make their software a world gold standard for laser users. I’m confident if it took a short time for a fix, it would already be there.
Nothing in commercial (most) software is a 1 hour fix.
I can suggest a commercial alternative. I used a t-link wireless bridge and it’s Ethernet connection to the Ruida which worked well, few failures… However with the Lightburn bridge I rarely get a failure…
The t-link wireless bridge was about $12 back then. I would think it should give you the wireless connection you desire…
