Plugin for I/O Phidgets TEXTLCD 1203

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Dear Developers,
This is Daniele Bertolini form Zoccolan’s lab.
Building new setup, we had some troubles on I/O devices configuration.
We are experiencing some problems with the plugin for the Phidgets TEXT LCD 8ch. 1203 in our lab.
We are currently using MW latest release (version 0.5.1) on MacMinis with either Yosemite (OS 10.10) or Mavericks (OS 10.9.5) on.
We downloaded the plugin from David Cox’s repository on GitHub and followed the instructions to compile it. We encountered some warnings about semantic issues and deprecation but we managed to compile it and the bundle was positioned in the right folder.
We tried to update the plugin following the tutorial, and even without update it.
However, when it comes to MW, the plug-in is not even displayed in MW Editor I/O folder.
Could you suggest any solution for this problem?
Is there a way to make the plugin work?

Thanks in advance

Daniele Bertolini

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Hi Daniele,

The Phidgets plugin needed a few updates to work with MWorks 0.5.1. Please try this version.

Cheers,
Chris Stawarz

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Hello Christopher,

We tried to compile the Phidgets plugin on our Mac Minis (on both Yosemite and Mavericks) and although the build went fine and the plugin was seen by MWEditor, MWClient couldn’t load it and when we loaded a sample experiment to test if we could read some sensors we got a “no factory for object type: iodevice/phidget” error. It looks like the plugin is recognized by MWorks but the server cannot load it; we already checked that all the libraries linked by the plugin are reachable and that the getPlugin function is marked as public symbol. What could be going wrong? Are there any logs we can check to see where in the loading process something fails?

Thanks for your patience,

Daniele Bertolini

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Hi Daniele,

Can you open Terminal.app, run the following command:

MWORKS_WRITE_MESSAGES_TO_STDERR=1 /Applications/MWServer.app/Contents/MacOS/MWServer

and then send me the output? I’m expecting to see some error messages after “Loading PhidgetsPlugin”, which should help to pinpoint your problem.

Thanks,
Chris

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Wait, I think I’ve found the issue. It looks like the plugin needed some additional updates. Please pull the latest code from my fork and try again.

Thanks,
Chris

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Hi Daniele,

Just checking in on this issue. Have you managed to get the Phidgets plugin working with MWorks 0.5.1, or do you need further assistance?

Cheers,
Chris Stawarz

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Dear Chris,
now everything works well on yosemite os!
This is a great piece of news.
Thank you for your availability.
BR

Daniele Bertolini