From 105e23b187600066706bd22a2478862d6d6e9e2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Weigert <jnweiger@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 03:01:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] move args.hid check into main(). It has nothing to do in
 write()

---
 lednamebadge.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lednamebadge.py b/lednamebadge.py
index 69a6c82..f65c71e 100755
--- a/lednamebadge.py
+++ b/lednamebadge.py
@@ -559,8 +559,6 @@ or
                 LedNameBadge.pyhidapi.hid_write(dev, sendbuf)
             LedNameBadge.pyhidapi.hid_close(dev)
         else:
-            if args.hid != "0":
-                sys.exit("HID API access is needed but not initialized. Fix your setup")
             dev = LedNameBadge.usb.core.find(idVendor=0x0416, idProduct=0x5020)
             if dev is None:
                 print("No led tag with vendorID 0x0416 and productID 0x5020 found.")
@@ -662,6 +660,10 @@ def main():
     for msg_bitmap in msg_bitmaps:
         buf.extend(msg_bitmap[0])
 
+    if not LedNameBadge._have_pyhidapi:
+        if args.hid != "0":
+            sys.exit("HID API access is needed but not initialized. Fix your setup")
+
     LedNameBadge.write(buf)