Issuses with Spherov2 on M4 MacOs

[jswa9964]

I’m having some weird problems with using SpheroV2.

The robot can move forward and backward, and it turns. I can control the front and back LEDs. The Onfreefall and onland event handlers work, but the main LED and the Oncollision event handlers don’t.

When I run the same code on a Windows PC, everything works perfectly. But on a Mac, it only works partially.

Has anyone else had issues using this software on a Mac?

[superfashi]

I'm not aware the reason of this happening. It could be a bug in the underlying bleak library. You can try updating the library but I'm not sure if there's API breakage.

[jswa9964]

Thanks for the reply superfashi.
I managed to get it working!
I don't think its a Mac specific issue because today I came across 4 others with Windows Machines with the same problem.

I tried an older version of Python and that solved it for me.

I arbitrarily chose Python 3.9.6 and created a virtual environment in Vs Code and its works at least on my machine.
NOTE: I haven't tested all the capabilities out just yet, but will update this post if I come across other problems.

Hope this helps others.

[superfashi]

Hey thanks for figuring this out. Unfortunately I don't have any sphero devices with me anymore to test why this is the issue. I wish there were someone else that could help with development.