Use pip3 in the hints, when it fails due to missing pyhidapi. As discussed in issue #19

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Juergen Weigert 5 years ago
parent af70755b49
commit 0681d05c4f
  1. 5
      led-badge-11x44.py

@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
# v0.9, 2019-07-17, jw Support 48x12 configuration too.
# v0.10, 2019-09-09, jw Support for loading monochrome images. Typos fixed.
# v0.11, 2019-09-29, jw New option --brightness added.
# v0.12, 2019-12-27, jw hint at pip3 -- as discussed in https://github.com/jnweiger/led-name-badge-ls32/issues/19
import sys, os, re, time, argparse
from datetime import datetime
@ -64,10 +65,12 @@ except:
print("ERROR: Need the pyhidapi or usb.core module.")
if sys.platform == "darwin":
print("""Please try
pip3 install pyhidapi
pip install pyhidapi
brew install hidapi""")
elif sys.platform == "linux":
print("""Please try
sudo pip3 install pyhidapi
sudo pip install pyhidapi
sudo apt-get install libhidapi-hidraw0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhidapi-hidraw.so.0 /usr/local/lib/
@ -78,7 +81,7 @@ or
sys.exit(1)
__version = "0.11"
__version = "0.12"
font_11x44 = (
# 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'

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