Windows Error

[frakman1]

Although I was able to run this easily on my Mac, I couldn't get it to work on Windows. At first, I got an error about no module named 'bitstruct' but I got around that with pip install bitstruct. Now I get this error:

C:\Python27\python-lifx-sdk-master\python-lifx-sdk-master\examples>python fraktest.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "fraktest.py", line 1, in <module>
    import lifx
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\lifx\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from client import Client
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\lifx\client.py", line 7, in <module>
    import device
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\lifx\device.py", line 5, in <module>
    from lifx.color import modify_color
ImportError: No module named color

Any ideas what might be going wrong? This is on a Windows 7 machine: Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:43:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

Incidentally, the test script looks like this:

import lifx

lights = lifx.Client()
time.sleep(1)
for l in lights.get_devices():
    print "Toggle %s" % l.label
    l.power_toggle()

[smarthall]

Interesting ... python can find the lifx package but not the color module. Do you have a conflicting installation of another LIFX supporting python module?

[frakman1]

I have lifxlan, lifx, lifx-python and lazylights (all from github I believe)

Do you think it's due to lifx? I got that from here: https://github.com/pHaeusler/lifx

[abowman]

Same issue, different module. It installed fine using python setup.py install. When I try to run one of examples scripts, I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "lifx.py", line 6, in <module>
    import lifx.Client
  File "c:\Users\abowman\Dropbox\bin\lifx.py", line 6, in <module>
    import lifx.Client
ImportError: No module named Client

If I print the sys.path, it looks like this:

print "\n".join(sys.path)
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools-2.0-py2.7.egg
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\lifx_sdk-0.8-py2.7.egg
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bitstruct-1.0.0-py2.7.egg
C:\Windows\system32\python27.zip
C:\Python27\DLLs
C:\Python27\lib
C:\Python27\lib\plat-win
C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk
C:\Python27
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages
>>>

[abowman]

The discovery example works if I open the python console and paste the script in, but it won't run if I run the script from a file. This has me confused.

[frakman1]

I was able to get around this using virtual environments for windows. See this page for instructions on how to set one up.