I am currently trying to get Revo Scan working on Linux (Ubuntu 20.04.4), but with no luck so far.
It is sad that there is no official linux version. That would be useful especially for researchers (which sometimes have laptops running linux). Maybe that can be a consideration.
I installed Wine and tried to open Revo Scan, which worked so far. But no device is recognized. I know you have to configure Wine to use /dev/… devices (in my case they are under “/dev/bus/usb/002/00x” which I have done, but it still doesnt show up.
Did someone have more luck and can report successful scans via Wine or a VM setup?
I just managed to connect wirelessly (Pop2 in host mode) to the Pop2 using wine-7.7-staging (+dxvk, but it also works without) on Gentoo Linux.
I can see the streams from both cameras and even the realtime 3D preview … but after clicking “new scan”, setting the parameters and clicking ok, everything freezes.
I just installed vcrun2019, vcrun6 and vcrun6sp6 into the wine prefix, using winetricks, and now everyrthing works!
I don’t know which of the three did the trick, though.
Thanks for you tip, I wasn’t even thinking of connecting the POP2 via Wi-Fi, but that also worked (even without installing vcrun2019 etc separately, atleast on Ubuntu).
Did you have any luck for a working usb connection?
Hi!
Thanks for the wifi hint! Works fine!
You might find it interesting, that the Pop 2 actually is a little linux device and even has an open ssh port.
I brute forced the root password and it is “internet”
Still hoping for official linux support of course, but anyway just opened a revopoint-pop2-linux-info repo on github with some info.
Maybe we can roll our own if nothing happens (I don’t think though, that there are many linuxers yet, who own the device - we’ll see)
Closing my account on this platform again, so don’t worry if I don’t answer to any possible replies here (would have edited my previous post, but edit option seems to be missing)
have fun all!
Trying to get RevoScan 4 working for the Range using Wine on Ubuntu. It seems to work for about 30 seconds but then Wine crashes and the following error message (along with heaps of other info) is displayed:
Unhandled exception: unimplemented function bluetoothapis.dll.BluetoothFindFirstRadio called in 64-bit code (0x000000007b011e0e).
I have added the bluetoothapis library in the Wine DLL overrides but the crash still happens. Any ideas?
I’d like to echo the request for a Linux version, and/or a version for Chromebooks. The app is not supported for Chromebook Android apps. I also can’t get Scan 5 to work with wine, with or without winetricks support. The installer just hangs the terminal window.
I guess I’m really the odd man out; my main workstation is running Fedora 37. If I have to, will try running under wine, or a Virtualbox VM, but since all my other 3D tools are running natively on Linux, that’d be kind of a PITA…
I’d also love to see linux support from Revopoint. (I’d even warrant a guess that in this type of technical market that the percentage of linux users is probably proportionally higher). It looks like the scan software uses QT5 and OpenSceneGraph for a lot of functionality, both of which are cross-platform compatible and so it might not be that much work to port (even a slightly less functional version) to Linux. I don’t recognize another one of the biggest libraries but it might be ‘Point Cloud Library’ - which is also compatible with Linux.
(Have any of the developers even tried compiling a Linux build? It might be quite simple.)
Tried running via WINE and PROTON while installing all of the recommended libs. Neither v4 nor v5 of the software worked unfortunately. Will think more about that, meanwhile, it’s such a pity REVOSCAN doesn’t provide a Linux version.
I would love to have a Linux option. I literally have dual boot on my laptop so I have Windows for Revoscan and Autodesk Inventor ONLY. If I could get a stable option for those to run on linux, I wouldn’t be using windows at all and I’d be using more Revo products.
I am not sure why Revo Point doesn’t offer a Linux version of Revo Scan as they offer the software for Windoze, Mac, and Android - which to my understanding is pretty heavily based upon Linux.
I’ve also noted on the Revo Point website only recently that Revo Scan 6 has been released - but for Windoze only.
In regard to Revo Scan on Linux, I’ve used WINE to run the software, which seems to run, but I’ve not been able to connect to my scanner (Miraco) using USB. I’ve only started on this in the last two days, and then only during breaks, so I’m not up-to-speed on either the Revo Scan software or with the Miraco.
I have noted that I can connect the Miraco, through the USB cable, into ‘file server mode’ (can’t recall the exact name), and copy stuff from the Miraco to the PC (with a Linux file manager). I can then use the Revo Scan software (through WINE) to access the data on the PC. I suppose that is a plus with having a stand-alone scanner.
With regard to connecting to the scanner via USB, I wonder if it is a USB driver issue, and Linux just doesn’t have the right driver? Many other programs work fine accessing USB with WINE. But I’ve only ever been using generic USB devices - I’ve done zero with flat-bed scanners and other things that likely have specific drivers.
I also read (in a Pop 3 post) that connection to a scanner using WINE over WiFi was do-able, but it required putting the Pop 3 into ‘host’ mode. I saw no such option in the Miraco menus.
Thanks for your feedback but I recommend you send an email with your feedback to customer@revopoint3d.com to put it on the record personally , it will make more good than you think.
If I have to, will try running under wine, or a Virtualbox VM, but since all my other 3D tools are running natively on Linux, that’d be kind of a PITA…