Add support for Ruida controllers

[angela90miranda-sudo]

rayforge acept ruida controlers? how?

[knipknap]

Sorry, no, Ruída is not yet supported.

[pgilfernandez]

It would be a game changer... I hope you could in the near future implement it as there are so many controllers of this kind and there is no open source software option for them (us).

Cheers

[knipknap]

Sorry, I don't have such a device - someone who has would have to step up and implement it.

[StevenIsaacs]

I recently made Ruida functional for MeerK40t and am tempted to do the same for Rayforge. It's not a trivial project but I have the knowledge and am willing to contribute.

I have a RD6442S based machine which is a fairly popular controller for CO2 lasers.

I'd be tempted to add a level to the driver directory which currently contains grbl and smoothie. Would you be open to that? e.g. rayforge/machine/driver/grbl*.py would be moved to rayforge/machine/driver/grbl/grbl*.py and a new directory named ruida for the ruida stuff.

[pgilfernandez]

Hi @StevenIsaacs, it would be awesome to have Ruida support!! I hope @knipknap lets you try.

[knipknap]

Oh wow, yes! If you did not see it, I also created some developer docs for the drivers:

https://rayforge.org/docs/latest/developer/driver.html

[StevenIsaacs]

Yeah, I saw them. One reason why I decided to offer.

[StevenIsaacs]

@pgilfernandez Out of curiosity, what controller do you have?

[pgilfernandez]

@pgilfernandez Out of curiosity, what controller do you have?

Ruida, hehehe...

So I would help testing if needed 😅

[StevenIsaacs]

@pgilfernandez Out of curiosity, what controller do you have?

Ruida, hehehe...

So I would help testing if needed 😅

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Specifically, which Ruida controller? I have a RD6442S.

[StevenIsaacs]

@knipknap First hick-up. I'm running Fedora 41 and am unable to install gir1.2-adw-1. Google AI is suggesting this:
sudo dnf install python3-gobject gtk4 libadwaita
Do you think that will work?