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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Travis Stamper tstamper@hardecs.com wrote:
Seems to be good now. I will let you know if I hit any other hurdles. Thanks so much, your help is greatly appreciated for someone just learning linux and led’s
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:50 AM, Adam Haile adammhaile@gmail.com wrote:
you didn’t call with sudo
root has it’s own python modules that are often different from the local user
You either need to do pip3 install --user bibliopixel so that you can run without sudo or you need to always run the command with sudo.
I would do sudo pip3 uninstall bibliopixel and pip3 uninstall bibliopixel (yes, BOTH) to make sure you’ve completely cleared out the installs.
I need to investigate but I think something changed in raspbian recently. Because it used to be you ALWAYS ran pip with sudo and then what you installed would be accessible as user AND root.
It probably would be normally but I guess you somehow got bibliopixel also installed into userspace.
Oh… also, after doing the uninstall… for good measure, run sudo rm $(which bp) and sudo rm $(which bibliopixel)
I literally just ran into a similar issue when testing this fix… so I’m pretty sure they changed something with the python install recently.
Also, if you can’t use SPI as non-root, follow this: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/26278/driving-led-stripes-as-non-root-user
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Travis Stamper tstamper@hardecs.com wrote:
I used ‘sudo pip3 install --upgrade BiblioPixel’ to upgrade and that all seemed fine. Downloaded version 3.4.2 and seemed to successfully do the upgrade. Then I ran the same command as before and the following is what I received. What did I do wrong?
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ bibliopixel run https://github.com/ManiacalLabs/PiPixel/blob/master/Demos/spi.json --ledtype APA102 --verbose
ERROR - run - 1 project failed
ERROR - run - When reading description:
{‘run’: {‘fps’: 30}, ‘layout’: {‘typename’: ‘strip’, ‘brightness’: 128}, ‘driver’: {‘typename’: ‘spi’, ‘c_order’: ‘RGB’, ‘num’: 64}, ‘animation’: {‘typename’: ‘BiblioPixelAnimations.strip.Rainbows.RainbowCycle’}}
encountered exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/main/run.py”, line 57, in _get_animations
project = common_flags.make_project(args, desc)
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/main/common_flags.py”, line 145, in make_project
return project.project(project_flags, desc, **kwds)
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 53, in project
project = construct.construct(**desc)
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/project/construct.py”, line 13, in construct
return datatype(*args, **kwds)
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 36, in init
self.drivers = [create(d, ‘drivers’) for d in drivers]
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 36, in
self.drivers = [create(d, ‘drivers’) for d in drivers]
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 34, in create
python_path=‘bibliopixel.’ + name)
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/project/recurse.py”, line 60, in recurse
return call(post, desc) or desc
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/project/recurse.py”, line 43, in call
return f and f(desc)
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 26, in post
return self.construct_child(**desc)
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 16, in construct_child
return datatype(**kwds)
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/drivers/SPI/driver.py”, line 34, in SPI
raise ValueError(’{} is not a valid LED type.’.format(ledtype))
ValueError: (‘Unable to create drivers’, ‘APA102 is not a valid LED type.’)
Unable to create drivers
APA102 is not a valid LED type.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/bibliopixel”, line 15, in
main.main()
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/main/main.py”, line 74, in main
return run(args) or 0
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/main/run.py”, line 112, in run
animations = _get_animations(args)
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bibliopixel/main/run.py”, line 83, in _get_animations
raise ValueError(‘Run aborted’)
ValueError: Run aborted
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Adam Haile adammhaile@gmail.com wrote:
Travis,
Run pip install --upgrade bibliopixel and you should get v3.4.2 which will get you back on track.
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 6:57 AM, Adam Haile adammhaile@gmail.com wrote:
Nice I’m on it… testing right now.
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 6:55 AM, Tom Swirly tom@swirly.com wrote:
Done - it’s now in that previous pull request!
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Tom Swirly tom@swirly.com wrote:
I have it here, I’ll check it in.
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Adam Haile adammhaile@gmail.com wrote:
Travis, can you attach your test.json?
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On Jan 12, 2018 6:36 AM, “Travis Stamper” tstamper@hardecs.com wrote:
Lol, no problem. I know how that goes. Look at my sig and that will tell you how much I understand
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 6:27 AM, Tom Swirly tom@swirly.com wrote:
And I should have been clearer. “A pull request” means I have made a request to change the code with a possible fix. It doesn’t mean we’ve actually fixed it yet! It’s obvious to me because I do this every day but not so obvious to others.
Next time I’ll be clearer about that.
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:24 PM, Adam Haile adammhaile@gmail.com wrote:
Easiest is to give me a couple hours and I’ll have a new release out. So sorry for this, it’s entirely my bad… It seems something is horribly messed up with my Pi test rig and was not testing the latest as I thought.
You could also pull the code direct from Tom’s pull request via git and install manually… But that’s a lot more complicated. I’m in the car right now, so by the time I get to my computer I’ll have the easy way for you ready to go.
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On Jan 12, 2018 6:20 AM, “Travis Stamper” tstamper@hardecs.com wrote:
Kinda new to this who thing, how do I incorporate the fix?
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 4:44 AM, Tom Swirly tom@swirly.com wrote:
“We” or actually I introduced this bug in August - https://github.com/ManiacalLabs/BiblioPixel/commit/e64d850f8354963dda4867e4b980b243af040053#diff-57f403ec226f1b9878f9af9a421cac31
Clearly we aren’t testing the SPI drivers as part of our release process. We’ll fix that too!
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Tom Swirly tom@swirly.com wrote:
This is definitely our issue. I put out a pull request which I believe will fix it and it’s here: https://github.com/ManiacalLabs/BiblioPixel/pull/570
I can’t actually test it as I don’t have any SPI devices, but I’m reasonably sure it’s correct, and Adam can test it.
(For my own curiosity, I’m now going to take a look and see when we introduced this bug…)
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HI Travis,
Sorry about that, your previous message got caught in the spam filter. I’ve cleared your user for future posting, and CC’d Adam on this message, just to make sure. He should be able to answer your question.
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Travis Stamper tstamper@hardecs.com wrote:
I am just getting started with Bibliopixel and I keep getting errors when trying to run my test script for APA102, does it no matter which led I specify.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo bibliopixel test.json --verbose
ERROR - run - 1 project failed
ERROR - run - When reading description:
{‘animation’: {‘typename’: ‘BiblioPixelAnimations.strip.Rainbows.RainbowCycle’}, ‘layout’: {‘typename’: ‘strip’, ‘brightness’: 128}, ‘run’: {‘fps’: 30}, ‘driver’: {‘typename’: ‘spi’, ‘c_order’: ‘RGB’, ‘num’: 64, ‘ledtype’: ‘APA102’}}
encountered exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/main/run.py”, line 57, in _get_animations
project = common_flags.make_project(args, desc)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/main/common_flags.py”, line 145, in make_project
return project.project(project_flags, desc, **kwds)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 53, in project
project = construct.construct(**desc)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/project/construct.py”, line 13, in construct
return datatype(*args, **kwds)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 36, in init
self.drivers = [create(d, ‘drivers’) for d in drivers]
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 36, in
self.drivers = [create(d, ‘drivers’) for d in drivers]
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 34, in create
python_path=‘bibliopixel.’ + name)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/project/recurse.py”, line 60, in recurse
return call(post, desc) or desc
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/project/recurse.py”, line 43, in call
return f and f(desc)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 26, in post
return self.construct_child(**desc)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/project/project.py”, line 16, in construct_child
return datatype(**kwds)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/drivers/SPI/driver.py”, line 34, in SPI
raise ValueError(’{} is not a valid LED type.’.format(ledtype))
ValueError: (‘Unable to create drivers’, ‘APA102 is not a valid LED type.’)
Unable to create drivers
APA102 is not a valid LED type.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/bibliopixel”, line 15, in
main.main()
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/main/main.py”, line 74, in main
return run(args) or 0
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/main/run.py”, line 112, in run
animations = _get_animations(args)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/bibliopixel/main/run.py”, line 83, in _get_animations
raise ValueError(‘Run aborted’)
ValueError: Run aborted
I have got the WS2811 to run but the others I can not if I switch the jumper back to SPI and try the script. Thanks
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