Unable to open HID device about python-elgato-streamdeck

[Xlaits]

Are you doing this as root? Your user needs to have access to the device, as described here. Scroll down to the setup.

[abcminiuser]

Root access shouldn't be required, as the udev rules should assign the current user read/write permissions on the USB device. I did a documentation update to the rules in a49ce2c after feedback from users, adding the new uaccess tag to fix the permissions on non-Debian distributions.

[cmccandless]

Additional info: after posting this issue, I stumbled onto the Streamdeck UI project. That application works fine. I followed the "Manual Installation" steps. I will test to see if I can still reproduce the issue.

Possible causes:

• User was not part of plugdev group
• Streamdeck UI setup lists more udev rule entries (4) than the setup instructions I listed above (1). One or more of these missing may have caused my issue.

[cmccandless]

Unable to reproduce after Streamdeck UI installation. Suggest reviewing installation docs regarding user group membership and udev rules.

[cmccandless]

It's possible that the changes in a49ce2c are sufficient. When will that change to the docs populate to https://python-elgato-streamdeck.readthedocs.io/en/stable/pages/backend_libusb_hidapi.html#linux-ubuntu-debian?

[abcminiuser]

Oops - the documentation for stable is up to date now. Apparently something had gotten stuck for that build environment on ReadTheDocs, I had to wipe it for it to rebuild correctly.