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Unable to detect Pixy in Win7

Pixy Hardware
#1

Hi all,

When I plug the Pixy in my Win7, the Windows Device Manager shows it connected. When I run the PixyMon, I receive this message forever:

Pixy detected.
error: Unable to connect to device.

Some others may solve this issue by uploading the firmwave or switching to libusb (see http://www.cmucam.org/boards/8/topics/2967). But it doesn’t work for my case. Even when Pixy is run in the programming mode, the Pixy Mon is crashed and automatically closed.

I also tried to build the PixyMon source code in Qt, I get this error:

error: libusb.h: No such file or directory
#include “libusb.h”
^

However, as the Pixy is plugged in my Ubuntu (2 OS in my PC), everything is fine.

But, I prefer to work Pixy in Win7.

Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks!

#2

Hi Bao,

Have you tried reinstalling the driver on Windows? It is possible the driver installation did not succeed.

Also, when you connect it to the Ubuntu machine, have you tried running one of the demo programs? Or does it just not give you “error: Unable to connect to device”?

Thanks.

Scott

#3

Thank you very much, Scott. I removed the old Pixy driver, installed the new one and it is ok now.

Bao