Is this supposed to work on macOS?

[agoodshort]

First of all, great job on that. Big big kudos to y'all! Maybe it was just not designed to work on macOS, but somewhere on the README.m you do mention that if not working on Windows, it might miss some drivers so I thought i'd try on macOS. I did not troubleshoot much this error, I kinda wanted to run it by you first.

node index.js -f outfile.bin

/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:135
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/build/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/build/Debug/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/build/Release/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/out/Debug/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/Debug/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/out/Release/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/Release/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/build/default/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/compiled/15.7.0/darwin/x64/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/addon-build/release/install-root/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/addon-build/debug/install-root/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/addon-build/default/install-root/usb_bindings.node
 → /Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/lib/binding/node-v88-darwin-x64/usb_bindings.node
    at bindings (/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:126:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/usb.js:1:57)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1108:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1137:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:973:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:813:14)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:997:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:92:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/index.js:1:13)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1108:14) {
  tries: [
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/build/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/build/Debug/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/build/Release/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/out/Debug/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/Debug/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/out/Release/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/Release/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/build/default/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/compiled/15.7.0/darwin/x64/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/addon-build/release/install-root/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/addon-build/debug/install-root/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/addon-build/default/install-root/usb_bindings.node',
    '/Users/adrimac/Documents/GitHub/voc-poc/node_modules/usb/lib/binding/node-v88-darwin-x64/usb_bindings.node'
  ]
}

[j005u]

Did you npm install? Did it finish without errors?

OS X should work fine.

[dgtvc]

OS X on Big Sur with m1 inside works fine ^^

[shatiffconyers]

can you better explain how to get it working on mac? or a step by step.. i'm new to this and struggling here...

[dgtvc]

Sorry, was late,

1. Try to open terminal in repository folder
2. Write: rm -rf node_modules
3. Type: yarn, when on installing packages, yarn shows some errors paste it here, some we can check everything more
4. And check basic commands from Readme.md, on main repository page

FYI: @shatiffconyers

[OdoorX]

I'm stuck, i'm on Mac with everything done from here https://gist.github.com/fichek/c69326dba7e5a9dfb6ecc2c9e4e93224

Air-di-000:voc-poc a000$ ls LICENSE.txt index.js magic.c package.json README.md install-scripts package-lock.json voc-poc Air-di-000:voc-poc a000$ npm install -bash: npm: command not found Air-di-000:voc-poc a000$

Any advice?

[dgtvc]

@OdoorX There was some an error with installing node on your PC, so just type this in your terminal: curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash

You must reopen terminal to make it working, so close whole terminal application.

Then open a new terminal and type: nvm install node

Then you should be able to rerun commands from step 5, skipping step 6, cause you have this repository already on your PC

[OdoorX]

@dgtvc many thanks, now the process in going and installed npm, but i have another problem..

[agoodshort]

@dgtvc Thanks! Alright found my issue It was related to xcode. I recently updated macOS and xcrun was not updated properly I guess. My npm install was running fin. But when trying to do anything else with npm I'd have some errors like below:

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools),
missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

Resolution steps:

1. $ rm -rf node_modules
2. $ xcode-select --install
3. $ npm install

[agoodshort]

@OdoorX You are missing the ffmpeg package. I personally installed it using homebrew $ brew install ffmpeg

[dgtvc]

For me brew didn't work out with ffmpeg :/ But i have working solution for this, if somebody have problem

[OdoorX]

@goodshort

I already did everything written inside here:

So, i installed homebrew and then: 1)node 2)ffmpeg

But i get this error

[OdoorX]

https://github.com/fpv-wtf/voc-poc/issues/2#issuecomment-839566333

Me, please help! :)

[dgtvc]

@OdoorX try to:

1. Go to: click me
2. On every of left blocks with: ffmpeg..., ffprobe..., ffplay..., click download as zip, then open every zip file inside Downloads for extract everything, so in Downloads folder you will have files called ffmpeg,ffplay
3. In terminal write something like this: sudo cp ~/Downloads/ff* /usr/local/bin this will copy binaries to executive folder on your PC

And then ffplay should work flawlessy!

[OdoorX]

@dgtvc dude.... thank you so much, you are great!! You solved the problem for every Mac user ;)

[agoodshort]

@OdoorX If @dgtvc solution does not work for you. What's the output of $ brew info ffmpeg?

[agoodshort]

Closing the issue as everyone got sorted. Happy flying!