Brick Viewer

This repository contains the source code of Brick Viewer. Prebuild installers/packages for various platforms are provided here:

https://www.tinkerforge.com/en/doc/Downloads.html

Supported Platforms

• Linux
• Windows 8.1 or newer
• macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) or newer

Using the Tinkerforge APT Repository

We provide prebuild .deb packages for Debian based Linux distributions.

Follow the steps in the readme for your distribution to set up the repository:

• Debian:

  https://download.tinkerforge.com/apt/debian/readme.txt
  

• Ubuntu:

  https://download.tinkerforge.com/apt/ubuntu/readme.txt
  

• Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian):

  https://download.tinkerforge.com/apt/raspbian/readme.txt
  

Install Brick Viewer package:

sudo apt install brickv

Running the Source Code (instead of using prebuild installer/package)

The following libraries are required:

• Python >= 3.5
• PyQt >= 5.5 with QtOpenGL
• PySerial >= 3.0 (Linux), >= 3.5 (Windows, macOS)
• pytz
• tzlocal
• pkg_resources

On Debian based Linux distributions try:

sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtopengl python3-serial python3-tz python3-tzlocal python3-pkg-resources

On other systems you can install the requirements with pip:

pip install -r src/requirements.txt

If you use pip, a virtual environment is recommended, but not necessary.

First you have to build the Qt .ui files with the fixed version of pyuic5, you can do this with python3 build_src.py in src/. After that you should be able to start brickv from source with python3 main.py in the src/brickv/ directory.

Building Packages

The Python script src/build_pkg.py can build a Debian package for Linux, a setup.exe for Windows or a disk image for macOS.

To build an installer (Windows) or disk image (macOS), a virtual environment is required.

Linux

To build the Debian package, you need to install setuptools. To build the package run python3 build_pkg.py or continue with "Building inside a virtual environment".

Windows

Under Windows ensure, that python3 is in the PATH, e.g. by creating a python3.bat file with the content:

@echo off
python.exe %*

To build an installer, NSIS and the Universal CRT (available as a part of the Windows 10 SDK) is required. Then continue with "Building inside a virtual environment".

macOS

Building the macOS disk image requires python3 installed with homebrew. Then continue with "Building inside a virtual environment".

Building inside a virtual environment

The virtual environment is created with:

python3 -m venv brickv-venv

and activated with source brickv-venv/bin/activate under Linux or macOS, or under Windows with either brickv-venv\Scripts\activate.bat or brickv-venv\Scripts\activate.ps1 if you use cmd.exe or PowerShell.

The required packages can then be installed with:

pip install -r src/requirements.txt

Then run python3 src/build_pkg.py --no-sign to build the package, disk image or installer.