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HoroTW / pixoo-awesome

Uses the pixoo-client to display interactive data (custom clock, cpu load, ram, git status, ....) on a Pixoo-Max.
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Help newbies for find the MAC adress #2

Open tanguyp14 opened 1 year ago

tanguyp14 commented 1 year ago

Hello i have th Pixoo Max too, i wanna use some custom image to it the app is lame.

How i use yours ? I don' know how to have MAC adress of the PIxoo Max

HoroTW commented 1 year ago

Hey, no problem I will walk you through it. First of all what OS are you using? :)

tanguyp14 commented 1 year ago

Thank for responding ! Im on MAC OS

HoroTW commented 1 year ago

So I'm not familiar with macOS, after some googling, it seems that you would just need to pair the pixoo with your macOS device. After pairing, you need to execute

system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType

Which will then include the mac address for the pixoo device.

Let me know if you need more assistance.

tanguyp14 commented 1 year ago

Omg. I didn't know i can pair it with my Mac 🙀 Ok i got the MAC adr. I will follow the readme ! Thanks

tanguyp14 commented 1 year ago

OK so now i got error : (yeah !)

I pair it with my laptop and i got the MAC adress. But : ❱❱❱ python pixoo.py 11:75:58:38:7A:31 Connecting to 11:75:58:38:7A:31... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/tanguypinel/Downloads/pixoo-awesome-main/pixoo.py", line 20, in <module> pixoo.connect() File "/Users/tanguypinel/Downloads/pixoo-awesome-main/modules/pixoo_client.py", line 39, in connect self.btsock = socket.socket(socket.AF_BLUETOOTH, socket.SOCK_STREAM, socket.BTPROTO_RFCOMM) AttributeError: module 'socket' has no attribute 'AF_BLUETOOTH' [13:20:39] [cost 0.160s] python pixoo.py

HoroTW commented 1 year ago

Which python version do you have? (find out with python --version)

tanguyp14 commented 1 year ago

I use :

Python3 --version Python 3.10.9

HoroTW commented 1 year ago

Okay I found the culprit... As described in this issue on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29107537/missing-socket-af-bluetooth-in-anaconda-python MacOS is special in it's handling of Bluetooth .... The native python way that the pixooclient uses is sadly not compatible with macOS... (see https://docs.python.org/3.3/library/socket.html) Do you have another device maybe a single board computer like a RPI? (That is the way I use this project)

tanguyp14 commented 1 year ago

I think i have pc can run Linux ! But the PC need to be "online" all time to set up the pixoo ? Or just for sending information ? (Thanks for your responses anyway !)

HoroTW commented 1 year ago

I will see if I can implement a version using PyBluez - they claim that they are cross platform compatible (including macOS - https://github.com/pybluez/pybluez)....

But I'm currently moving and a little short on time, I guess it will take a few months until I'll be able to tackle this. If you want you can try it yourself, pull requests are welcome.

The PC would need to be turned on - the PC calculates the picture and sends it for display to the pixoo. I would have liked to do it differently but I did not find any way to execute code on the pixoo itself.

Currently I animate a clock and have some Pixels indicating statuses for things like if I did a 'daily commit'. 20220109_011629

tanguyp14 commented 1 year ago

That a cool set-up ! I stream so i would like to interact with the pixoo but is kinda "hard" ^^' Nevermind i will try on linux, or even on rapsberry(like) just to display custom 'FAKING' clock ^^

Happy moving ! thanks again :D

manisfive commented 1 week ago

Have you thought about coming back to this? I don't mind giving it a try but I'll be kinda mashing puzzle pieces together to try and make them fit