Waiting for the mac gui! :) about nodemcu-pyflasher

[ozarchie]

On Mac OSX, brew install wxpython worked.
At the end of the install, the following message was included:

Python modules have been installed and Homebrew's site-packages is not
in your Python sys.path, so you will not be able to import the modules
this formula installed. If you plan to develop with these modules,
please run:
mkdir -p /Users/xxxx/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages echo 'import site; site.addsitedir("/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages")' >> /Users/xxxx/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/homebrew.pth

After that, ./nodemcu-pyflasher.py worked.

[marcelstoer]

I couldn't run app from dist folder.

That's expected and I never claimed you could. It's right here: https://github.com/marcelstoer/nodemcu-pyflasher#status. If you can help "promote" pyinstaller/pyinstaller#2355 by leaving comments there it'd probably be beneficial for quite a few people.

please consider a section in readme when explaining what to install and do before running the app and how to run it.

Sure, can do that. However, I personally don't see why anybody on Mac would try to use this app (as long as there's no app bundle, see above) rather than running esptool.py directly from the console. Do you feel having a GUI justifies the extra effort of installing Python bundles?

[kskenyon]

Yes, "you" meant @siva1024. Sorry for the confusion.

I did take @siva1024's edits to Main.py for wxPython 4.0 and applied them to @marcelstoer's update in GitHub. I got it to run after a couple of tweaks and used pyinstaller -w to make a macOS .app file and it works fine. The desktop icon is a bit messed up and so are the images in the About box but I didn't fix that. The Main.py changes were easier to find than I thought at first. The dout addition is good. On to the next challenge.

[marcelstoer]

There is a Mac GUI just not yet an .app bundle.

• git clone https://github.com/marcelstoer/nodemcu-pyflasher
• cd nodemcu-pyflasher
• python nodemcu-pyflasher.py

[quintendewilde]

I managed to do this but got following error.

File "nodemcu-pyflasher.py", line 3, in <module>
    import Main
  File "/Users/quintendewilde/nodemcu-pyflasher/Main.py", line 3, in <module>
    import wx
ImportError: No module named wx

[marcelstoer]

That is to be expected because running it directly requires wxPython to be installed in your Python environment.

[quintendewilde]

Ok, so I did from the site:

Install wxPython-Phoenix (Linux):
sudo pip install --upgrade --trusted-host wxpython.org --pre -f http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/ wxPython_Phoenix

which returns the same error. (Restart terminal needed?)

[marcelstoer]

I linked to the stable release install for a reason. I didn't program against wxPython phoenix.

~/Data/Python/NodeMCU-PyFlasher (master) > python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Oct 11 2016, 05:24:00) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.38)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import wx
>>> wx.version()
'3.0.2.0 osx-cocoa (classic)'

Oh, and of course you'd still need esptool installed.

I really hope they're going to fix pyinstaller/pyinstaller#2355 soon so this hassle will go away for Mac users.

[quintendewilde]

I have esptool installed, I think I followed your stable link (but that might not be your point)
I really hope so to, I've tried so many ways to get micropython etc on my WemosD1miniPro

[marcelstoer]

If you follow my initial wxPython link you'll end up on https://www.wxpython.org/download.php where they offer wxPython3.0-osx-cocoa-py2.7.

[quintendewilde]

Ow it seems I forgot to tell another error in my steps, when downloading the pkg for cocoa or carbon, OSX Sierra tells me the package is damaged.
Nevermind, I have to change permissions.

[quintendewilde]

The installer could not be installed because it couldn't find the software is the result of installing the pkg, do you have the pkg that works?

[marcelstoer]

I downloaded it from there as well, sorry can't help with that 😞

[quintendewilde]

I've managed to install it with a program called Pacifist, (I see it when I look at the packages via pip.freeze) I get

wxPython==3.0.2.0
wxPython-common==3.0.2.0
wxPython-Phoenix==3.0.3.dev2749+f803d20

So clearly some versions got installed, except for the one from the link you gave me.
wondering why it still doesn't work though

[blackbyte-pl]

I had the same problem as @BLCKPSTV . I managed to install wxPython from homebrew with simply
brew install wxpython

but it didn't solve the problem - I couldn't run app from dist folder. I was able to run it from main dir though:
python Main.py

worked like a charm
@marcelstoer please consider a section in readme when explaining what to install and do before running the app and how to run it. It was quite frustrating ;)

[solancer]

Left a comment on pyinstaller/pyinstaller#2355 hope this gets resolved soon..

[siva1024]

I Changed some of the code in the main.py for supporting the new wxPython 4.0 (Phoenix) the code is in the link below. I also made an application file for macOS direct installation. I just checked it and it is working fine. I am going to post the code I modified within the same link if anyone wants they can have a look
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a45xd2mco7trmjp/AACI93iTN120uMvjslWz-EwMa?dl=0

[marcelstoer]

@siva1024

1. Cool!
2. The 'About' dialog doesn't work, at least not in the compiled macOS binary.
3. Can you please add the script you used for building macOS binary to Dropbox as well.

[siva1024]

I just uploaded the script that i used for compiling in the same dropbox folder

[kskenyon]

There is a 2.1 version now and I can't figure out what you changed in Main.py. I tried compiling it with the version on GitHub using your setup.py but it doesn't work. Something about images is messed up.

Would you mind doing a pull and posting a compiled binary for those of us that are struggling to get a version of nodemcu-pyflasher.app with the dout option?

Thanks

[marcelstoer]

The "you" in your previous comment seems to be directed at @siva1024 rather than at me. FWIW to see my changes since 2.0 you can go to the release and look for "n commits to master since this release". This will bring you to v2.0...master

[marcelstoer]

Looking forward to wxPython 4 GA as I've given up any hope that pyinstaller/pyinstaller#2355 will ever be fixed. Thanks for confirming that wxPython 4 is not affected by that bug.

[marcelstoer]

Fixed with the latest 3.0 release. Enjoy!

[kskenyon]

private$ python nodemcu-pyflasher.py objc[20812]: Class FIFinderSyncExtensionHost is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FinderKit.framework/Versions/A/FinderKit (0x7fffa2b69cb0) and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileProvider.framework/OverrideBundles/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride.bundle/Contents/MacOS/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride (0x115ca3cd8). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined. Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/Users/private/nodemcu-pyflasher/Main.py", line 76, in run esp = ESPLoader.detect_chip(self._config.port, initial_baud) File "/Users/private/nodemcu-pyflasher/esptool.py", line 216, in detect_chip detect_port = ESPLoader(port, baud, trace_enabled=trace_enabled) File "/Users/private/nodemcu-pyflasher/esptool.py", line 195, in __init__ self._set_port_baudrate(baud) File "/Users/private/nodemcu-pyflasher/esptool.py", line 200, in _set_port_baudrate self._port.baudrate = baud AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'baudrate' This happens when I click on the Flash Button in 3.0. My version of 2.5 is working fine.

[marcelstoer]

I can't reproduce this.

If you run it through your own Python interpreter using python nodemcu-pyflasher.py then you need to make sure you install esptool.py v2.2.1 manually! The local esptool.py copy in this repository is only used during the packaging phase.

My version of 2.5 is working fine.

Hhmm, there never was a v2.5.