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EdingCNC uses a Chinese clone of this wireless handwheel, probably with a customized Product ID. I’m not sure if this is a general issue, but it might be interesting for users who want to switch from EdingCNC to LinuxCNC without buying a new wireless handwheel controller.
The controller sold by EdingCNC — which is basically identical to the ones available on AliExpress — costs more than €300. It is needed in order to run with the EDING CNC Software.

@Gogonfa
It might be worth raising an issue on github & maybe request that the PID could included on the line that loads the driver.

Could be of immense help further down the track.

Hi @all,

the issue with the Product ID on my Eding CNC branded wirless Handwheel ist solved. By changing the PorductID in the usb.h file and a rebuild of LinuxCNC, everything works fine 

@Rod,
We can not edit your youtube videos on your youtube studio!
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how is the html code for grin?

Thanks @rodw,
today I built LinuxCNC 2.10-pre directly from the git repository, using the 6.12.48+deb13-rt-amd64 real-time kernel together with the Probe Basic GUI.Getting Probe Basic up and running was a bit tricky — some of the Python libraries it relies on are deprecated and no longer available in Python 3.13, so I had to make a few adjustments. But it’s working now!I also changed the ID for the wireless handwheel (not yet tested), and EtherCAT is running as well.

Gogonfa wrote:

[b]From what I’ve read, the Product ID is defined in the driver source (like usb.h), and you’d need to rebuild it — which I can’t manage.[/b]

 

Anybody can build linuxcnc from source. I did a video guide. studio.youtube.com/video/Oe4Hfq3G2_A/edit
 

It's the IDs that are the issue which are hard coded into the driver. 2.9.7 won't help.

Linuxcnc 2.9.4 was released to fix some things with with XHC USB pendants. Perhaps an upgrade will fix things. Here is how to get it on Trixie
 

There may be more than the usb product code that differ between them.
Here is where to change github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/fb1480...-whb04b-6/usb.h#L311
Then build linuxcnc and run-in-place.

lspci will only probe devices on the pci\pcie bus.
The OP is correct the USB device ids are defined in the header file.
Maybe if the OP raised an issue on the GitHub page he would have direct access to the Devs.
Unfortunately the only thing I can think of is to follow the instructions given in the docs and build Linuxcnc from source as a RIP and see how things go.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to get my XHC-WHB04B-6 wireless handwheel working with LinuxCNC, but mine shows up as:

So the Vendor ID (10ce) is fine, but the Product ID is 0xeb91 instead of the usual 0xeb93.
It’s one of those AliExpress clones, originally meant for EdingCNC controllers.

From what I’ve read, the Product ID is defined in the driver source (like usb.h), and you’d need to rebuild it — which I can’t manage.

Has anyone already patched this or found a way to make LinuxCNC recognize it?

Thanks a lot!
Michael

LinuxCNC 2.9.7 released 26 October 2025. LinuxCNC 2.9.7 has been released.
This is another bug-fix release to fix an unexpected interaction in a previous bugfix. (In this case the driver for the popular XHC pendants was incompatible with changes made to HALUI pin creation)
In addition changes to the CI (continuous integration) in Github mean that the install debs will be available from the LinuxCNC Github repository under the "releases tab"

This update is for all users, but especially users of the XHC pendants and Gmoccapy.

Packages for 2.9-uspace for amd64 (PC) and arm64 (Pi) for Debian Buster, Bullseye, Bookworm, Trixie and Sid have been added to the linuxcnc repository.
If you installed from one of our live images or Pi SD-card images then the update should be available immediately. The install script here: linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/getting-st...th_preempt_rt_kernel has been
augmented with a version for Trixie updated to include a new, longer key required by Debian versions from Trixie onwards.
(A combined script is undergoing testing, www.linuxcnc.org/linuxcnc-install-test.sh if you have a working Debian (Buster through to Trixie) install and want to install LinuxCNC on it)
At the moment the live-image installer and SD card images will install 2.9.4 but update should be trivial (and possibly automatic). Updated images are in-progress. RTAI is still supported, but in the short term building from source is likely to be the most expedient way to get 2.9.7 on that platform. Changelog

• [ci] publish releases with artifacts - GitHub now builds release deb
• Revert 7d9ee66 to address #3583 - halui functions stop working in 2.9.5/6
• Merge pull request #3512 from Sigma1912/patch-1
• Gmoccapy: Fix arrow key up/down bug in tooleditor

Acknowledgements As always, we couldn’t do this without the contributions from the community, so many thanks:
Konstantin Tcepliaev
Sigma1912

Just noticed that the handwheel is (probably) already available in the newest linuxcnc. I tried it via a 5 year old YT Video. It is probably much more easy for the basic functions.
I try to do it now...

Are you compiling from source because 2.9.6 doesn't work properly with the XHCWHB component?
If so then see this thread:

forum.linuxcnc.org/21-axis/57364-axis-co...-9-6?start=10#336658

if not, then you can get a list of the missing build dependencies

cd linuxcnc-dev
./debian configure no-docs
dpkg-checkbuilddeps

try
you might want to have a look at section 4.2.2 'Satisfying Build Dependencies':
www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/code/building-linuxcnc.html