Christopher Arndt

Can you try installing from the git repo as [described here](https://spotlightkid.github.io/python-rtmidi/installation.html#from-the-source-code-repository)? ```con git clone --recursive https://github.com/SpotlightKid/python-rtmidi.git cd python-rtmidi [sudo] python -m pip install build installer python -m build --wheel [sudo]...

@kamulchik Any luck compiling python-rtmidi on CoreElec yet?

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Alas, it doesn't work that way. Port numbers are not guaranteed or even expected to stay the same. They change as MIDI devices get added or disconnected. That's one of...

BTW, `open_midiinput` and `open_midioutput` were always only meant as quick-and-dirty helper functions for MIDI utilities on top of what the core RtMidi C++ API offers.. For more robust applications, you...

> I also found that on windows you get the Port Number with the namestring of the open_midiport function and on Mac you don't. - Is that expected and stable?...

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Are you sure you really installed this package? Not another package, which uses the Python package name `rtmidi`? See the [install instructions](https://spotlightkid.github.io/python-rtmidi/installation.html), if unsure.

Well, first there was [one](https://pypi.org/project/python-rtmidi/#history) and then there came [another](https://pypi.org/project/rtmidi/#history) (though the first commit of the latter package was a few weeks before the former, it was registered on PyPI...

Would you happen to have test case for this?