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gryphius / pycyborg

My first attempt at reverse engineering a USB protocol - cyborg gaming lights
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Issues with OpenElec 6.0.3 #3

Closed alex-vision closed 8 years ago

alex-vision commented 8 years ago

I followed the directions for installation on open elec. Yet there were some differences from your instructions and I tried to cope with them as best as I could. Im running openelec 6.0.3 on a raspberry pi 2. I still ran into some issues I was hoping you could help with. I installed both pycyborg-master and pyusb-master to /storage/.kodi/userdata because /storage/.xbmc/userdata/ is not used anymore, at least I think that's why I couldn't find it. Also the instructions call for you to navigate to userdata/addon_data/service.multimedia.boblightd/ and create the boblight.conf file. Well in my install that folder didn't exist, so I created it, and I created the boblight.conf file. I added the content you had indicated to add, changing the text in line 7 from output "/storage/.xbmc/userdata/pycyborg-master/boblight.py" to output "/storage/.kodi/userdata/pycyborg-master/boblight.py". I then followed the instructions to create a symlink and run the test file. I was unable to get indentify.py to run. This is the result of trying to run ./identify.py

OpenELEC2:~/.kodi/userdata/pycyborg-master # ./identify.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "./identify.py", line 6, in <module> cyborgs=get_all_cyborgs() File "/storage/.kodi/userdata/pycyborg-master/pycyborg/__init__.py", line 185, in get_all_cyborgs devs=usb.core.find(find_all=True,idVendor=VENDOR,idProduct=PRODUCT) File "/storage/.kodi/userdata/pycyborg-master/usb/core.py", line 1263, in find raise NoBackendError('No backend available') usb.core.NoBackendError: No backend available

Any thoughts? I have four sets of Cyborg gaming lights that are no longer compatible with my computer due to upgrades to windows 8.1 and windows 10, so I have just been storing them in my closet, but I would be incredibly grateful to you if you could help me out with this problem.

gryphius commented 8 years ago

usb.core.NoBackendError: No backend available

This sounds like libusb is not installed (or pyusb doesn't find it). I haven't used OpenElec in years so I don't know how you would install this correctly. My raspberry pi 3 should arrive this week tho, I'll try to find out.

alex-vision commented 8 years ago

Ok. I'll check on that on my end. I'll see if I can manually install libusb. I'm not very good with Linux so I may have to wait until you get it up and running, but know that I am extremely interested in your results. I have all these cyborg light collecting dust and I would love to use them again. Thank you for taking the time to help out with this problem.

On Sunday, March 6, 2016, Oli notifications@github.com wrote:

usb.core.NoBackendError: No backend available

This sounds like libusb is not installed (or pyusb doesn't find it). I haven't used OpenElec in years so I don't know how you would install this correctly. My raspberry pi 3 should arrive this week tho, I'll try to find out.

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gryphius commented 8 years ago

@alex-vision I remembered that openelec needed a special hack to load libusb which didn't work anymore. This is now updated and I've adapted the openelec install docs as well.

My cyborg lamps now work on openelec 6.0.3 / raspberry pi 3.

Please update your pycyborg code and try again!

alex-vision commented 8 years ago

I updated my download of pycyborg, I had to chmod some files (probably because of the way I transferred them) and everything now works perfectly. This is so great, thank you. I would love to donate some moneyto thank you for your time on this project, if you have paypal or something.

gryphius commented 8 years ago

glad to hear that it works for you as well!

I would love to donate some money

this is very kind, but knowing that this code is useful to someone else is more than enough compensation :)