Help newbies for find the MAC adress

[tanguyp14]

Hello i have th Pixoo Max too, i wanna use some custom image to it the app is lame.

How i use yours ? I don' know how to have MAC adress of the PIxoo Max

[HoroTW]

Hey,
no problem I will walk you through it.
First of all what OS are you using? :)

[tanguyp14]

Thank for responding !
Im on MAC OS

[HoroTW]

So I'm not familiar with macOS,
after some googling, it seems that you would just need to pair the pixoo with your macOS device.
After pairing, you need to execute

system_profiler SPBluetoothDataType

Which will then include the mac address for the pixoo device.

Let me know if you need more assistance.

[tanguyp14]

Omg. I didn't know i can pair it with my Mac 🙀
Ok i got the MAC adr.
I will follow the readme ! Thanks

[tanguyp14]

OK so now i got error : (yeah !)

I pair it with my laptop and i got the MAC adress.
But :
❱❱❱ python pixoo.py 11:75:58:38:7A:31 Connecting to 11:75:58:38:7A:31... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/tanguypinel/Downloads/pixoo-awesome-main/pixoo.py", line 20, in <module> pixoo.connect() File "/Users/tanguypinel/Downloads/pixoo-awesome-main/modules/pixoo_client.py", line 39, in connect self.btsock = socket.socket(socket.AF_BLUETOOTH, socket.SOCK_STREAM, socket.BTPROTO_RFCOMM) AttributeError: module 'socket' has no attribute 'AF_BLUETOOTH' [13:20:39] [cost 0.160s] python pixoo.py

[HoroTW]

Which python version do you have? (find out with python --version)

[tanguyp14]

I use :

Python3 --version
Python 3.10.9

[HoroTW]

Okay I found the culprit...
As described in this issue on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29107537/missing-socket-af-bluetooth-in-anaconda-python
MacOS is special in it's handling of Bluetooth .... The native python way that the pixooclient uses is sadly not compatible with macOS... (see https://docs.python.org/3.3/library/socket.html)
Do you have another device maybe a single board computer like a RPI? (That is the way I use this project)

[tanguyp14]

I think i have pc can run Linux !
But the PC need to be "online" all time to set up the pixoo ? Or just for sending information ?
(Thanks for your responses anyway !)

[HoroTW]

I will see if I can implement a version using PyBluez - they claim that they are cross platform compatible (including macOS - https://github.com/pybluez/pybluez)....

But I'm currently moving and a little short on time, I guess it will take a few months until I'll be able to tackle this.
If you want you can try it yourself, pull requests are welcome.

The PC would need to be turned on - the PC calculates the picture and sends it for display to the pixoo. I would have liked to do it differently but I did not find any way to execute code on the pixoo itself.

Currently I animate a clock and have some Pixels indicating statuses for things like if I did a 'daily commit'.

[tanguyp14]

That a cool set-up !
I stream so i would like to interact with the pixoo but is kinda "hard" ^^'
Nevermind i will try on linux, or even on rapsberry(like) just to display custom 'FAKING' clock ^^

Happy moving ! thanks again :D