Missing setuptools requirement and numpy version adjustment on gentoo

[entropie]

Hello,

iam trying to get the thing working and while following the install steps on two up2date gentoo machines I noticed two things. I use Python 3.12.6.

When running the step

pip install -r requirements_no_pi.txt

I get ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

Which is easily fixable by

pip install setuptools

Then after running the requirements install again I get

Collecting numpy==1.25.2 (from -r requirements_no_pi.txt (line 4))
  Using cached numpy-1.25.2.tar.gz (10.8 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

According to the second answer on stackoverflow I changed the numpy requirements to

numpy~=1.26.4

And it installs.

Now the software seems to works but I still get

USB Error reading from device: [Errno 32] Pipe error

But Iam pretty sure that is not a software issue. I tried different USB cables but still. Any ideas maybe?