LONGER Research: Lightburn WiFi Bridge - Longer B1

Lightburn WiFi Bridge - Longer B1

Longer B1 adopts an MKS mainboard, characterized by USB connectivity, wireless technology, microSD card reading, touchscreen display with graphic interface (optional) and total interaction with your smartphone through the MKSLaser application or Longer LaserBurn. 

The most common method of using Longer B1 is to connect the machine to your Laptop via a USB connection, or by exporting a gcode file to be run via the Longer B1 microSD. However, there is also an intermediate mode of operation, based on WiFi connectivity, which allows you to use Lightburn and Longer B1 without a USB cable. 

Connecting the Laptop and Longer B1 with a USB cable requires them to be within a short distance of each other, as the maximum extension of a USB cable is about 3 - 5 meters. On the other hand, connecting the Laptop with Lightburn and Longer B1 wirelessly allows you to position yourself at a greater distance, so as to obtain good greater security during the engraving process. For this reason, using Lightburn in WiFi mode offers numerous advantages in terms of security and efficiency, thus expanding the user's comfort and versatility of Longer B1. 

NOTE: This procedure works only with Longer B1 (without TouchScreen), if you installed TouchScreen and its specific firmware this procedure cannot work.

In order to connect Longer B1 and Lightburn wirelessly, you first need to complete the WiFi setup process on your Longer B1. To do this, proceed as follows.