{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ManiacalLabs/BiblioPixel/issues/15","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ManiacalLabs/BiblioPixel/issues/15/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ManiacalLabs/BiblioPixel/issues/15/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ManiacalLabs/BiblioPixel/issues/15/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ManiacalLabs/BiblioPixel/issues/15","id":71305133,"number":15,"title":"Error running text_demo.py (Problem communicating with network receiver)","user":{"login":"LeoDJ","id":5898657,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5898657?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/LeoDJ","html_url":"https://github.com/LeoDJ","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LeoDJ/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LeoDJ/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LeoDJ/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LeoDJ/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LeoDJ/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LeoDJ/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LeoDJ/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LeoDJ/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/LeoDJ/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":14,"created_at":"2015-04-27T14:47:27Z","updated_at":"2015-04-28T18:16:17Z","closed_at":"2015-04-28T18:16:17Z","body":"Hi Adam,\r\n\r\nI was just getting startet with the interface for my POV Display (because the mechanics aren't completely done yet) and my goal for this day was getting a gif to be displayed (just on the strip without pov) to test the library. \r\nSo I startet by running the text_demo.py The Visualizer windows appeared, but the pixels (of the visualizer) just stayed blank and following error was written to the terminal:\r\n\r\n    pi@RaspberryPi-PoV ~/LEDstrip/BiblioPixel-master $ sudo python text_demo.py \r\n    ERROR - network - [Errno 111] Connection refused\r\n    Traceback (most recent call last):\r\n      File \"/home/pi/LEDstrip/BiblioPixel-master/bibliopixel/drivers/network.py\", line 55, in update\r\n        s = self._connect()\r\n      File \"/home/pi/LEDstrip/BiblioPixel-master/bibliopixel/drivers/network.py\", line 45, in _connect\r\n        s.connect((self._host, self._port))\r\n      File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py\", line 224, in meth\r\n        return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)\r\n    error: [Errno 111] Connection refused\r\n    ERROR - network - Problem communicating with network receiver!\r\n    Traceback (most recent call last):\r\n      File \"text_demo.py\", line 18, in <module>\r\n        scroll.run(fps = 20, untilComplete = True, max_cycles = 2)\r\n      File \"/home/pi/LEDstrip/BiblioPixel-master/bibliopixel/animation.py\", line 59, in run\r\n        self._led.update()\r\n      File \"/home/pi/LEDstrip/BiblioPixel-master/bibliopixel/led.py\", line 100, in update\r\n        d._update(self.buffer[pos:d.bufByteCount+pos])\r\n      File \"/home/pi/LEDstrip/BiblioPixel-master/bibliopixel/drivers/driver_base.py\", line 44, in _update\r\n        self.update(data)\r\n      File \"/home/pi/LEDstrip/BiblioPixel-master/bibliopixel/drivers/network.py\", line 75, in update\r\n        raise IOError(error)\r\n    IOError: Problem communicating with network receiver!\r\n\r\nSo, I'm not sure what's going on here, but it seems to have to do something with the network interface, even though I'm not using it anywhere. \r\nBecause I don't know the library code as good as you, I didn't bother looking for too long in the source code (I didn't find anything in half an hour). So instead, I installed python and the library (including dependencies and Tkinter) on my windows machine and still got the same error.\r\n\r\nIt would be really nice if you could help me with this issue ;)\r\n\r\nRegards \r\nLeoDJ"}}