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I have a shuttle pro by Contour that I have used with linuxcnc for years under version 2.7 using the old HIDCOMP component which is now outdated and not included in the new distro.    The shuttle always worked perfectly.

Now, I have upgraded to 2.9.4 using the iso installer.     WIth only the single line "loadusr shuttle" it throws a error as "dev/hidraw0 is not a known device."          Looking at the docs it does not recognize a valid usb ID for my contour shuttlepro.     LSUSB lists the ID as "011" and that is not provided for in the shuttle component but is indeed valid for a shuttlepro.   The component only covers ID's of 0020, 0240 and 0030.    

LSUSB displays Device 003   0b33 and ID 011 Contour shuttlepro

I did make the appropriate rule using the 011 ID but apparently the failure to recognize the id is withing the component coding.

Edit: I found the attached document that confrims that 011 is a valid usb id   (chart on pg2)

Hopefully someone will correct this in the shuttle.1 component.      

Thanks,
George
 

I'm interested in hearing opinions/thoughts from folks that have use both LinuxCNC, and one of the microcontroller firmware based systems, like Grbl, or FluidNC.  I have long (though perhaps not "deep") experience with LinuxCNC, and I've done some reading a couple of times about the "newcomer" systems, but I've never used one.

I assume that, given a g-code file, any of them will (basically) get the job done.   What I'm interested in hearing about is the things that surprised you, in switching from one to the other.  What was better?  harder?  easier?  worse?  What did you miss?  What made your milling life better?  I know, I know -- changing mill s/w probably doesn't involve life-changing epiphanies.  But I think you understand what I'm wondering about.

This question is triggered mostly by curiosity, and also because I've been window shopping for a new mill lately, and I'm wondering how much I should care about the controller and software that come with it.  It's likely that I'll replace whatever they provide, with my RPi and Mesa card,  but...  maybe not, or, maybe not right away.  I guess I'm wondering what the "dark side" is like.

paul