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Sign upPackages no longer install in latest Raspbian/stretch image #9
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Same issue with |
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I am having the same problem. I have the updated version of stretch and now I cannot use the piface 2. |
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Same issue. "E: Unable to locate package python3-pifacedigital-emulator" |
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I have also had the same problem with my piface digital nothing i have tried well work . please help let us all know. I think this is not a good sign for the raspberry pi foundation not to give us an updated software for the piface old piface digital or some help to get it all working again. As we do buy a lot of raspi addons |
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Hi Having the same problems! Tried downloading and building the UI but that does not work. Is this project kept up to date? I am in the process of evaluating the PiFace for an industrial project, so far its not going to well. Shall I even bother to try and use the C libraries? |
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I think the packages are only available in pip now - the readme needs updating |
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pip? |
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Pip -- a package repository for python https://pypi.python.org/pypi The main library packages (all but the emulator) should currently be available for the Raspbian repo as they were updated at the end of last year to be compatible with the updated OS. The emulator package is work in progress as we're trying to determine what has been changed in Stretch. |
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Ok, so I will wait for the emulator then. slightly off topic, I am developing my software in C so will not be using the Python packages. Do you know if libpiface is up to date and the correct repository? |
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Hello. Today I tried both pip and apt-get to install the python3-pifacedigital-emulator, that is I tried: |
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I'll follow up and find out why the the update hasn't made it to the appropriate repos. |
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I have the same problem. When I try to install something it might say i have it,but I can't install the emulator so I can use it. 4 hours wasted for this search... |
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MARCH 13, 2019 - EMULATOR INSTALLATION STILL BROKEN :( pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install python3-pifacedigital-emulator |
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The entire piface software stack is a complete mess. No support or updates, documentation wrong, incompatibilities between first gen and current board - can’t recommend using it anymore.
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MARCH 13, 2019 - EMULATOR INSTALLATION STILL BROKEN :(
***@***.***:~ $ sudo apt-get install python3-pifacedigital-emulator
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python3-pifacedigital-emulator
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I gave up with the emulator but managed to get the C library working and have a project running with the board. However, as has been stated the product seems to have been neglected by the manufacturer and I probably won't go in to production with the board. Anyone know any alternatives? |
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The main problem is Raspbian changed under us. -- The current board is same as it has been. @apostrophesoftware -- let us know what part of the software you need. |
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@csoutreach I no longer need the emulator as I have worked around that. It would have been nice to have the emulator a year ago! My issue is that I am not confident enough to go to production with a board that appears to not be supported anymore |
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I would like the emulator. |
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Has anyone managed to locate the python3-pifacedigital-emulator package as I would like to use it now that I have bought the Interface but support seems to be dying or already dead ??? Any help would be much appreciated. |
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I have the same problem. Still no updates? |
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We're working on it -- there's a couple of issues 1) Raspbian/Buster has now changed again and so we need to re-architech a few things that the packages depend on. 2) we're trying to get the packages back into the distribution. |
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We use Raspberry pi and PiFace for educational purposes |
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Why is there so little recent and correct info (youtube etc) on getting the Piface up and running on a Raspberry? Is the product dead? Just bought it and wasted 1/2 day and still unsuccessful. grr. |
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@csoutreach I purchased five of the PiFace Digital 2 boards from e14 based on what looked like a well-documented product (based on the guides on your website) - the only one with an emulator. It was between the PiFace and the Pimoroni Automation Hat. I understand it takes time to update these things - but at the end of the day you are doing the community a MASSIVE disservice by not communicating clearly that essential components of the product are not CURRENTLY supported. I'm going to return these to e14, and I'm going to explain the reason why I'm returning them. If, and when you decide to bring this tool back from the dead we might reconsider your product but given your track record of 'we're working on it' then silence, I doubt this is going to eventuate into anything other than more excuses down the line. Thoroughly disappointed. |
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Sorry to hear of your disappointment. We're disappointed too, but we're at the mercy of other people and upstream repositories. Someone has made the wrong decision of how to support a particular aspect of embedded hardware at Debian, which influences Raspbian and others. We haven't got enough influence to make them do the right thing and don't really want to put a hack in to make things worse. |
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csoutreach - respectfully, that is a pretty poor excuse. You are selling a product that is useless and unsupported. It seems like an exciting product - but if the software is not easily available- its junk. Why can't you host the patch software? If you are not going to do it - change your website and be honest that it is a legacy piece of hardware. Your marketing and links to wrong info make people waste a lot of time; it is not ethical. |
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With similar respect, PiFace products are used by a large number of customers, and are designed into industrial products. As such we're keen that any software we do post is to that standard. We have no control over Raspbian or any other OS or how they change. Rolling our own and hosting our own distribution of Linux is not sustainable, and it's not a small patch. As mentioned we're in ongoing discussions with upstream to convince them to change so everything (PiFace and other products) work reliably, the right way. We don't want to post hacks. Appreciate your frustration, we'll put some more detailed explanation on our website. |
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Is there a solution yet? |
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I have to agree Lettslaw. If you are not going to provide functional software, you should at least warn people that unless they are planning to wade knee deep into coding, the device is useless, and is not supported. |
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I upgraded from Raspbian Jessie to Buster on an older raspberry pi and now like others I can't find the piface emulator.
I am following this thread hoping for a resolution soon! |
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@csoutreach is there any technical information published on how to get the original PiFace Digital IO board to work using any Python variant on the Buster Raspian OS ? I mean is any test code available for Buster that can be used as a proof of concept test ? I have an original Pi 1 B which I think was running Wheezy and now I am attempting to use Buster on that Pi. This Pi has a PiFace Digital IO board. I just want to operate the 2 relays. I am a Linux embedded software engineer so if you were able to point me to some technical information then that would be most helpful. Thanks. |
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Tried installing it on Raspbian VM (under Hyper-V) - same deal, both with apt-get and pip. Trying to see if there is another solution. |
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My workaround:
Good Luck. |
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I could not find "python3-pifacedigital-emulator" but I have now found and installed the "pifacedigital-emulator". sudo apt install pifacedigital-emulator This starts fine in Stretch but cannot detect the actual PiFace Digital 1 board that was working correctly with my original Wheezy build. Looking further for the solution to that. |
and others
pi@oldpi:~ $ sudo apt-get install python{,3}-pifacedigitalio
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python-pifacedigitalio
E: Unable to locate package python3-pifacedigitalio