Using a Raspberry Pi by exporting Lightburn GCode and sending to a GCode sender on the Pi

[bcnx (Bart Coninckx)]

Hi,
as I have different machines, I would like to offload my laptop and use a Pi for each machine. The design happens on my main laptop and then I want to send the GCode to the relevant Pi and then start a GCode sender on the Pi to which my engraver is connected.
Can I do this in this fashion with Lightburn?

Cheers,

BC

[raykholo (Ray Kholodovsky)]

Here is a detailed conversation about why LightBurn cannot natively run on a Pi, with a caveat:

LightBurn on pi4 running linux

The issue is the processor used in the Raspberry Pis. They use a different architecture from the processor used in PCs. It is therefore not possible to run LightBurn on a Pi natively. Another forum user has reported successfully running LightBurn on Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi. This only works because Win10 includes a translation layer that converts the instructions from the PC CPU instruction set to the rPi CPU instruction set. This isn’t ideal and typically suffers slow performance.

Not sure what kind of machines you have but LightBurn can make the gCode, you can save it, and run it via any number of gCode senders that are available on Rasp Pi.

[bcnx (Bart Coninckx)]

Hi raykholo,

I have a Elekslaser A3 Pro. Good to know that my idea should work. Will launch a Pi soon and test it out. I will also install some webcam software so I can monitor my engraving processes,

cheers,
BC