Azsmz mini with Ethernet:

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Azsmz mini with Ethernet:

When I chose to buy the simple board without an ethernet interface to run smoothieware I did not realize that VisiCut needed a network connection to function properly. To carry on I have adapted my Azsmz mini board by connecting an Ethernet phi module to the tiny pcb holes for this purpose available on the board.

I could not get this to work initially, there were two problems. the firmware needed to be updated but even then I had to set a static ip address in the configuration file.

The board is still not installed into my laser cutter cabinet but after some more testing this step may now be getting closer.

The board I used is this one: http://www.waveshare.com/lan8720-eth-board.htm which I found for sale on the internet, Attached is a photo of the wiring hack of it in use.

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Originally @Thomas_Oster wanted to have both usb and ethernet as you can see here

USB wasn’t implemented (maybe for time reason) before last september merge to main branch. (Smoothie driver isn’t final)

you have a interesting answer by Thomas to this post here:

@David_Richards_djrm @David_Cook @Arthur_Wolf

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That is not true. USB is implemented. It is not yet confirmed to work on all platforms, but it should. Just set the hostname and upload URL to “” and you can use the serial-port setting. On Linux is should be something like “ttyACM0” (not /dev/ttyACM0) and on Windows I think COM1, but this needs more WIndows people to test.

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Thank you @Thomas_Oster , for this precisions, it was not much info in the wild about the path.

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@Thomas_Oster Hi, useful to know visicut should work using serial but I havnt got it to work myself that way yet. I’ve tried both usb serial second serial. I’ll try and capture the traffic and see whats going wrong. Kind regards, David.

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I’ve tried capturing serial data and although the port opens I see no data being sent from visicut when I execute a small circle test job.

The tool used to capture is Virtual Serial Port Emulator. I can redirect pronterface through it without a problem. visicut holds the port open after failing to communicate, I then have to close visicut to try again.

The second serial port is connected to an ESP8266 serial to wifi board soldered under the LCD display, this is working well enough in Pronterface too. I’m using Jlabs ESP-Link software for that.

n.b. Nothing has been tried on the laser yet, ymmv. David.

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Could you set up a VisiCut dev environment as described here https://github.com/t-oster/VisiCut/wiki/Development:-Getting-started and then test what exactly happens?Also make sure you are using the latest and greatest VisiCut and maybe delete (after backup) your .visicut folder, so there are no leftovers from old config files.

Did you try to run VisiCut from command line in order to see the debug output?