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Generic API for controlling boards with programmable IO pins
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pingo.detect.MyBoard() doesn't detect Arduino with Firmata with x86 Operating Systems #72

Open rimolive opened 9 years ago

rimolive commented 9 years ago

I'm running a x86 Windows system and Arduino can't be detected from this system. Need to find a way to solve this issue without affect the entire detection process.

ramalho commented 9 years ago

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Ricardo Martinelli de Oliveira notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm running a x86 Windows system and Arduino can't be detected from this system. Need to find a way to solve this issue without affect the entire detection process.

During the Campus Party I helped a person with this issue and it turned out that Pingo is capable of detecting Arduino on Windows, but for some reason the installation of PyFirmata using pip did not bring the PySerial dependency, and the error reporting was wrong.

Try to manually install pyserial with Pip, then PyFirmata, and try the detection again. Also, please report if you are trying to detect the Arduino using detect.MyBoard or arduino.get_arduino.

Thanks!

Luciano Ramalho Twitter: @ramalhoorg

Professor em: http://python.pro.br Twitter: @pythonprobr

rimolive commented 9 years ago

I'm using detect.MyBoard() and from I could see in the code the assumption is that the OS running must be 'x86_64' before detect Arduino. See https://github.com/garoa/pingo/blob/master/pingo/detect/detect.py#L50

Vido commented 9 years ago

@ramalho , This issue is related with processor architecture, and not with operating system. @rimolive , Thanks for finding the bug. I guess it's a easy bug to fix, can you make a pull request?

Vido commented 9 years ago

Related #15