Implement Arduino Firmata autodetect for Windows

[ramalho]

Currently only "Linux" and "Darwin" systems are implemented in detect/detect.py

[Vido]

That's a start:
https://docs.python.org/2/using/windows.html
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/detect-device-insertion.html

Looks nasty...

How important is to pingo the "Windows Suport"?

[ramalho]

Em 02/05/2014 23:09, "Lucas Vido" [email protected] escreveu:

That's a start:
https://docs.python.org/2/using/windows.html
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/detect-device-insertion.html

Looks nasty...

How important is to pingo the "Windows Suport"?

Do we want users? If yes, then Windows support is important ;-).

It is important to remember that Windows or OSX support is only important
for the remote drivers (Arduino Firmata only at this time) because all the
onboard drivers will run on GNU/Linux.

But I think the Firmata driver is very important because the simplest way
to use Pingo today is to hook an Arduino to your computer running
GNU/Linux, Windows or OSX.

Also, I believe there are more Arduinos in the world than Raspberry Pis and
all the other boards combined.

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[Vido]

On the Campus Party Brasil 8, I saw someone running Pingo on Windows (Win7 I guess).
Does anyone remember what happened?

[ramalho]

Two things happened:

1. Running pip install pymata did not automatically install pyserial

2. When we tried to connect to an Arduino we got an error message saying
   that pymata was necessary, which was confusing because we had already
   installed it.

The problem is here:

https://github.com/garoa/pingo/blob/master/pingo/arduino/firmata.py#L42

We catch an ImportError and report that Pingo requires PyMata, but the
problem was with PySerial, not PyMata. I believe the main fault is with pip
which did not pull the required dependency. We had never seen that before
because pip was doing the right thing before. I don't know if it's a bug of
pip on Windows or a but of a recent verision of pip (the user had just
installed Python 2.7; I don't know which version he used, but I assume it
was the latest, and one that came with pip in the Scripts/ dir.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Lucas Vido [email protected]
wrote:

On the Campus Party Brasil 8, I saw someone running Pingo on Windows (Win7
I guess).
Does anyone remember what happened?

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Luciano Ramalho
Twitter: @ramalhoorg

Professor em: http://python.pro.br
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[gfth4x07]

I had the same problem while I try to run in Debian 7.8.
The pip install pymata don't automatically install the pyserial.