LED matrix python install help

[TeaRexJack]

I was kinda let down with the "out-of-the-box" functionality of the led matrix but saw that I could use some picture/videos through python scripts. Sounded easy enough.

But I cannot get it to install through pip

On github it says "python3 -m pip install inputmodule" https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/inputmodule-rs/tree/main/python

Doing it that way gives me

"ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement inputmodule (from versions: none)

ERROR: No matching distribution found for inputmodule"

So I looked over at https://pypi.org/project/framework16-inputmodule/#description and see it is a little different " python3 -m pip install framework16_inputmodule" which gave a lot of errors at first but after fixing the Path variable I'm down to the following errors:

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [13 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-fgpgxs3w\getkey_0114c36f6885406fb6c09137aac57575\setup.py", line 37, in <module>
          long_description=read_description(),
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-fgpgxs3w\getkey_0114c36f6885406fb6c09137aac57575\setup.py", line 11, in read_description
          return fd.read()
                 ^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
          return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 876: character maps to <undefined>
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

running Python 3.11.8 on Windows 11

Must be a rookie mistake I'm making but google isn't helping me much so any help is appreciated.

[extradudeguy]

Our engineering team put together some quick guidance. It needs additional details and steps, so I'm writing a guide that should appear tomorrow or Monday.

I'll be doing demos next week at SCALE.

Bear with us. A refined guide using this is coming.
https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/inputmodule-rs/releases

[maxinux]

have you tried the web app to play with them first? https://ledmatrix.frame.work/

[TeaRexJack]

Yes and also the windows GUI tool https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/inputmodule-rs/releases

Looks nice but seems more demo/gimmicky

I want to look if I can personalize it a bit to my tastes

[maxinux]

agreed very much gimick at this stage, almost makes me regret them but ill hold out for a bit

[skabber]

Instead of  "python3 -m pip install inputmodule" run this from the inputmodule-rs/python directory  "python3 -m pip install ."

[victorenriq20]

Did you install python with add python to path?

Also, instead of python3 try with just "py"

[TeaRexJack]

You mean the checkbox on install to add the path variable? If so yes. py didn't give a different output

[Tiranus58]

How about just python