Hello,
I have a Torobot (24 I think) USB servo controller which takes text commands and converts them to servo controlls.
I am using a Beagleboard XM (not the Bone) with an Angstrom distribution on it. I am having a hard time accessing the board programmatically and have tried several approaches. The board itself is fine, I'm just trying to send it commands. The Python API seemed to be the most straight forward, but, of course, there are a lot of depencies I'm fighting with.
I am trying to get the usb.find command to work properly in a python script I'm writing on Angstrom for the Beagleboard.
Here is my code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import usb.core
import usb.util
import usb.backend.libusb01 as libusb
PYUSB_DEBUG_LEVEL = 'debug'
# find our device
# Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1208:0815
# idVendor 0x1208
# idProduct 0x0815
# dev = usb.core.find(idVendor=0xfffe, idProduct=0x0001)
# iManufacturer 1 TOROBOT.com
dev = usb.core.find(idVendor=0x1208, idProduct=0x0815,
backend=libusb.get_backend() )
I don't know what's missing, but here is what I do know.
When I don't specify the backend, no backend is found. When I do specify the backend "usb.backend.libusb01" I get the following error:
root@beagleboard:~/servo# ./pyServo.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./pyServo.py", line 17, in <module>
dev = usb.core.find(idVendor=0x1208, idProduct=0x0815, backend=libusb.get_backend() )
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/usb/core.py", line 854, in find
return _interop._next(device_iter(k, v))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/usb/_interop.py", line 60, in _next
return next(iter)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/usb/core.py", line 821, in device_iter
for dev in backend.enumerate_devices():
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/usb/backend/libusb01.py", line 390, in enumerate_devices
_check(_lib.usb_find_busses())
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 366, in __getattr__
func = self.__getitem__(name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 371, in __getitem__
func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self))
AttributeError: python: undefined symbol: usb_find_busses
What am I missing so that this will work properly?
Thank you.