Sigh. I’m really wanting to get involved here with firmware development but I’m just getting completely tapped out on the time and frustration budget.
I tried installing odrivetool in Windows, had a lot of issues.
I tried installing on my Raspi (read some posts that implied I could), but there are tools/dependencies not available on that platform (IIRC openocd was not available)
Created a Debian VM, lots of configuration fiddling and finally got my firmware flashed and odrive tool running.
Had problems getting developer tools installed on that VM and noticed a lot of references to Ubuntu in the docs, so I spun up a fresh Ubuntu VM but then found that openocd (or maybe it was tup?) is not available for Ubuntu 18.04
So now I’ve created a new Ubuntu VM, this time 16.04. I have a fresh and updated installation and I’ve snapshotted it so I can test the instructions in the odrive docs and revert to a known state when needed.
So tonight, I fire up the new VM and try to start fresh. I knew from previous experience that the whole Python 2 vs. 3 thing was going to be a pain so I tried to be smart and work with only the Python 3 version of tools like pip… And now I’m having trouble and questions at step 1 and it only got worse at step 2:
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Install Python3 - doing a “python3 --version” on my fresh Ubuntu 16.04 install yields 3.5.2 and makes me wonder if that sufficient? What is the real python 3 version dependency? I decide that since the documentation doesn’t say anything more than “Python 3”, I should be OK and I’m not going to go down the rabbit hole of upgrades needlessly.
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Install the ODrive tools by opening a terminal and typing
pip install odriveNow I try to be smart and remember that I had trouble with the whole Python 2/3 disaster and I try pip3 install odrive which tells me that pip3 is not installed and it offers that I should sudo apt installpython3-pip, which I do. Now I think I’m ready to install the odrive tool so I type pip3 install odrive which yields the following (sorry if this pastes in as a mess):
wkalman@ubuntu:~$ pip3 install odrive
Collecting odrive
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ca/e5/7f8fadbd57fa73c27cf0362aaf8d60f544a277cc48509381604450a7af71/odrive-0.4.1.tar.gz (41kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 51kB 1.4MB/s
Collecting ipython (from odrive)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f7/62/2fef7db3a7b75e8099c3d9db2630ae5ba0b9eefefd91f7497862393d90e8/ipython-6.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (748kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 757kB 1.5MB/s
Collecting PyUSB (from odrive)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5f/34/2095e821c01225377dda4ebdbd53d8316d6abb243c9bee43d3888fa91dd6/pyusb-1.0.2.tar.gz (54kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 61kB 3.9MB/s
Collecting PySerial (from odrive)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0d/e4/2a744dd9e3be04a0c0907414e2a01a7c88bb3915cbe3c8cc06e209f59c30/pyserial-3.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (193kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 194kB 2.9MB/s
Collecting requests (from odrive)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/65/47/7e02164a2a3db50ed6d8a6ab1d6d60b69c4c3fdf57a284257925dfc12bda/requests-2.19.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (91kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 92kB 5.0MB/s
Collecting IntelHex (from odrive)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/bf/77/bf670318b3db325c71e2ac6a90b7bcfdf9fc739b7cf6aebb31715721623e/intelhex-2.2.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (50kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 51kB 3.4MB/s
Collecting matplotlib (from odrive)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/de/af/6258db9b26313dd7ad70dba30a60bec62bf030a44208d4cb62966206666f/matplotlib-2.2.3-cp35-cp35m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (12.6MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 12.6MB 129kB/s
Collecting pywin32>=222; platform_system == "Windows" (from odrive)
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32>=222; platform_system == "Windows" (from odrive) (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pywin32>=222; platform_system == "Windows" (from odrive)
You are using pip version 8.1.1, however version 18.0 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
So for some reason it thinks it’s running in Windows. And it says that I should upgrade from pip 8.1.1 to 18.0 (!). Running the suggested pip upgrade command confirms installation of 8.1.1 and repeats the warning and command to upgrade again.
Can someone please help me 1) Get things up and running and 2) Help me use this exercise as a way to update the docs? I don’t have a lot of experience with these tools and although I can say I have a working knowledge of Linux, I am not an expert but I am keen to learn and to help with this project but I will need some guidance where I have gaps.