@r3nder I’m not sure if this GitHub repo supports the C1, but it’s worth looking into; GitHub - thepelkus-too/SlamtecLidarTDCPPCHOP: A CPP CHOP for TouchDesigner for gathering data from a Slamtec RPLidar scanner
Lake Heckaman discusses implementing it in this video; https://youtu.be/fAvF2niosNA?si=mwpqy77TNrvT2H4C
Thanks, Brad. I already tried that, but unfortunately, it didn’t work. I’m currently using the Framegrabber with TUIO from the Slamtec SDK.
@Vasily Thanks so much for putting this together. I’ve got one S2 USB model working nicely inside TD.
Does anyone have any experience or info on whether you can connect multiple units to the same machine? If you can, are there any benefits to using network or USB units when having multiple connected?
There are no limits to the number of lidars you can use. I would prefer the network version as it simplifies setup and should be more stable over long distances. Serial communication over long cables can fail because the signal is very weak. Or you would need an expensive extension cord. While network one doesn’t carry about the length of the cables. Also, you do not have limit of your motherboard USB bus bandwidth. Just plug all the lidars into a router and connect it to the computer. I used a maximum of 8 lidars for a project on one machine now.
Has anyone had any luck compiling this on Apple Silicon? I don’t know my way around VSCode (or C++ programming in general) and keep getting errors when trying to build the solution.
Thank you for this great discussion. I was searching for an opportunity receive data with my RP-Lidar S2M1 throught ethernet.
Unfortunately I tried out through Robostudio and the USR-M0 software with the Ethernet adapter but can not find any device on the network. Is there any special steps I have to follow or I am missing?
When connecting through serial connection with com in robostudio I can see the sensor and also a button that pretends to give me the opportunity to change the Ip adress of the device but it also fails and tells me that ip can not be configured.
Thank you very much for any help 
I am also trying to use the ethernet module with an A3M1 with no luck getting data into TD. Using the USR software I can communicate fine with the Lidar, can ping and change IPs and all that fine, but I when activating the plugin, the Lidar won’t start spinning and I get a message in the info DAT that RPLidar is busy. I am using V3 of the plugin. Serial connection works totally fine. I am about to just buy USB extenders.