Firstly: Thank you to all the developers who've made this work.

Firstly: Thank you to all the developers who’ve made this work. It’s a great project!

We’re deploying a new installation with a Smoothie controller. We have it working but we’re very confused with how the settings are saved/loaded.

We were expecting Laserweb to be a web server (like OctoPrint) which we could log in to and we could configure it according to our laser so that any of our users (we’re a Hackspace) could log in and use the laser cutter.

However so far we’re finding that each time we log in we have to reconfigure the frontend for the laser. We’ve found the settings download/upload functions but it seems that even having saved (or uploaded) the settings we have to reconfigure (reload) the settings each time we log in to Laserweb. Is this correct?

Is there a way we can save the working settings semi-permanently on the Laserweb server so that our users don’t have to configure it each time they come to use the cutter? If this feature doesn’t exist is it something that the architecture would permit?

Many thanks,

Stuart

LaserWeb4 consists of a NodeJS based server and a web frontend (JS) for running in Chrome. The Installer has both integrated into an exe.
Usualy you should only need to select the profile or configure the machine settings once (per PC) and the settings should persist a restart. If this isn’t the case, you need to search for the reason, like browser cache deleted or missing file writing permission or different user profiles on windows.

@cprezzi Thanks!

If I save a new profile on one device I should be able to select that profile on another device? That didn’t work yesterday but I didn’t flush the browser cache on the second client.

If I delete all profiles except the new one I created will that one be loaded by default by new client devices?

And, one last question… If I change that profile on a client device (e.g. fixing a feed rate or cutting offset) will that change be reflected on other devices?

Thanks again @cprezzi !

@Stuart_L Yes, you should be able to save “Settings” and “Machine Profiles” (in Settings/Tools) and load both files on a second PC.