Indigo Domotics

Hey Folks

Before I dive to deeply here... ( I had tried this before and had some success), but now I've got a project. I'm looking into using DMX to control some lights in the yard. One thing I'm also considering using my RasberryPI to run the Q-Light software, and having Indigo control Q-light via OSC.

I realize there are a bunch of really big Maybe's out there.. but might this even be possible?

I don't use Q lights but if it you are to control it via OSC then you "should" be able to control it using the Py OSC library.
Colin

Alright.. so I got the DMX program installed on the Pi, but am stuck here:

3. Install pyOSC on the indigo machine
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pip install pyOSC

I'm assuming this is a terminal command, but looks like it might should be

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pip install python-osc

. ???? but.. regardless, I'm doing this part wrong, because I can't get it to work. I've looked thur/at the rest of the steps and have a good understanding of how this should work.. but can't get this module installed on my Indigo Mac....

Have you tried

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sudo pip install python-osc

?

Colin

Yes

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pip:  command not found

That probably accounts for you not being able to install pyOSc. You will need to install pip first. I'm no expert but sudo easy_install pip might work.

Colin

Installing pip helped... but OSC still won't install.. I think the pip command is trying to install the module from a soon to be outdated version of Python, so I get that error messages, and a host of others.... and still don't have OSC installed.. I'll look around on the web for another solution..

Thanks

It might help if you can post the errors shown in terminal, it might help someone to try to help debug why its not installing..

Colin

Hey everyone

I was finally able to get the OSC installed... turns out it was installed already.

I had put the script into an Action, and when fired, gave me a missing OSC error. As I've re-read this post, I went back to the OP's original script, and put the script in a stand alone file, with a .py suffix. Now, when Indigo triggers the script this is the error that I get

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Nov 14, 2019 at 4:18:40 PM
   Action Group                        QQQQQlight Test
   Script Error                    Qlighrt222.py: invalid syntax
   Script Error                    around line 4 - "   c = OSC.OSCClient()"

Later---

so turns out the script as copied has spaces as opposed to tabs... So I changed all of those lines to tabs, and now I'm back at my original error message concerning OSC

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Nov 14, 2019 at 4:32:24 PM
   Action Group                        QQQQQlight Test
   Script Error                    Qlighrt222.py: No module named OSC
   Script Error                    Exception Traceback (most recent call shown last):

     Qlighrt222.py, line 1, at top level
ImportError: No module named OSC


Its been a while since I installed this module but looking on my indigo machine, the path to the osc.py module is MacintoshHD/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages and it is working just fine. Can you post the script you are testing?

Colin

Hey Colin

Here is the script. As I mentioned, I was getting an error on the line after the "def send...." line, but changed the spaces to a tab, and then the next line was an error, so did the same for all of the indented lines, and then was right back were I started with the OSC error listed above. I did copy the script from the original post, and have read the thread a few times, but may have missed something...

Thanks for taking the time to look into this for me.

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import OSC

def send(address, value=0):
   c = OSC.OSCClient()
   c.connect(('192.168.5.103', 7700))
   oscmsg = OSC.OSCMessage()
   oscmsg.setAddress(address)
   oscmsg.append(value)
   c.send(oscmsg)

send('indigo01',1.0)
send('indigo01',0.0

So I tested your code with my indigo install and I don't get any missing module errors ( I replaced your ip settings and indigo01 with localhost), so I would say you need to check to see where Pip has installed the OSC module and make sure that python is configured to see that path. Thats all I can think of for the moment.
Colin

Thanks

I'll take a look....

Colin

I tried installing the OSC module using the Terminal, but got a very long string of error messages, mainly concerning the pending end of support for Python 2.7. Today, I tried again, and noted that the last error message involved permissions...

Then I remembered to run the command with sudo. Module installed, stand alone script now runs with no error messages.


For the moment, all is good.

Thanks again for your help.

Excellent, glad you got it working, worth persevering and happy to help.

Colin