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veebch / photon

A DIY incident light meter
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Cannot get ampy to install to Windows Powershell #29

Closed BadRothenfelde closed 9 months ago

BadRothenfelde commented 9 months ago

I am trying to get the software-side of this project to work - to no avail. I have installed Python on my Windows Laptop. I then need to install the python package installer (pip) and only then can I install ampy and thusly the photon software.

Am I understanding this correctly from a newbs' perspective?

Thanks for the help in advance and greetings from Cologne.

veebch commented 9 months ago

Hello Cologne! I've not installed it on windows but what you describe sounds sensible. Have you tried WSL? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install. It has worked well for me in the past.

Tip: If you're ever in a situation where there is an issue transferring files to a pico and there aren't that many files you need to make, then you always have the option of making them from scratch using Thonny (new file, paste code, save to device). It's a bit of a hack, but it works in a pinch :)

Good luck with the build