GPixPod

14 Responses to “GPixPod finally supports properly iPod Nano!”

1. Paul Says:
   February 11th, 2006 at 19:37

   I am trying to install GPixPod onto a Debian Testing installation but it is complaining about glib not being available to import - could you suggest what i need to install as there doesn’t seem to be a python-glib library. Thanks.

2. flagar Says:
   February 11th, 2006 at 22:03

   The only dependencies are PyGTK and PyGlade. With Debian apt-get install python-gtk2 python-glade2 should be enough.
   If everything seems properly installed, please report the command-line errors.
   On my dev box I have Ubuntu, the packages should be mostly the same.
   Let me know!
   Flavio

3. Paul Says:
   February 13th, 2006 at 06:30

   Thanks - I am running Debian testing and the required packages have just been upgraded from unstable so I have literally just installed… I am going to try tomorrow to upload and i’ll let you know…

   Thanks

4. flagar Says:
   February 13th, 2006 at 15:39

   OK! Hoping you like GPixPod.

5. Paul Says:
   February 14th, 2006 at 02:45

   Hey Flavio,

   I am getting this error from Python:

   Traceback (most recent call last):
   File “./gpixpod.py”, line 86, in HALdetect
   ipod_hal.connect(”ipod-added”, self.OnIpodConnect)
   TypeError: unknown signal name

   Is this because the ipodhal.py file can’t be found by the script? I am not that familiar with python so any help would be great.

   Thanks

6. flagar Says:
   February 14th, 2006 at 13:17

   Hi Paul,
   sorry but I forgot about HAL iPod autodetection. You need dbus and gnomevfs, too. However they will be optional in the next release. For the moment, should be enough launching:
   apt-get install python-dbus python-gnome python-gnome2 python-gnome2-extras

7. Paul Harris Says:
   February 14th, 2006 at 14:44

   Thanks - I have all of those except gnome2-extras. I spotted it in aptitude but from the description didn’t think I needed it… I am going to give it another crack tonight.

   Thanks a lot for releasing this project - it looks like quite a bit of work!

8. Paul Harris Says:
   February 15th, 2006 at 22:10

   I am still getting this problem unfortunately.

   I have all the modules installed that you mention above (note I am using python 2.4 so all of my debian packages are python2.4-*).

   The script has no problems finding and importing the required modules but it can’t seem to register a callback for the open signal…

   Any ideas would be gratefully appreciated….

   Thanks
   Paul

9. flagar Says:
   February 17th, 2006 at 11:29

   Hello Paul,
   while I’m looking for the error, if you use GPixPod 0.3 there is now the possibility to disable the HAL autodetection in the new preferences dialog.

10. myke Says:
    March 23rd, 2006 at 04:55

    hi. i have just purchased a new ipod nano and have it mounted properly. i’ve successfully ported music to the nano using gtkpod. i was recommended to use gpixpod for the photo import capability so i downloaded the debian/ubuntu version this evening and got it installed on my ubuntu system successfully, however … though my ipod is mounted well on my system, the gpixpod doesn’t seem to recognize that the ipod is mounted and keeps asking me to connect it. i have the mount pount set correctly in gpix preferences but it still will not recognize my nano.

    any suggestions?

11. myke Says:
    March 23rd, 2006 at 05:51

    well, now i’ve got my nano being recognized but it keeps saying “you are using an ipod unrecognized. please quit now: your model is not supported, and it never will be. it does not have a color screen and it does not support photos!”

    of course, this ipod nano is brand new and does have a color screen and does support photos. i have the newest version of gpixpod installed (.4) and all dependencies are installed as well.

    by the way — after it says the above error paragraph, it offers me to quite the program and if i hit cancel, it then will actually read the ipod at this point including the database.

    anyway to fix this?

12. flagar Says:
    March 23rd, 2006 at 11:33

    Hello myke,
    I haven’t understand: finally did you upload successfully your photos to the iPod, after ignoring the warning message boxes?
    What iPod Nano version do you have? I have added proper recognization of the latest 1Gb model only in the latest 0.4 version. It is based on scanning the file /ipodmountpoint/iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo. Check that you have this file and that the mountpoint is the right one looking at the title bar of GPixPod after loaded the Photo Database.

13. myke Says:
    March 23rd, 2006 at 19:34

    Yes, if I cancel/ignore the warning messages, it will then read the database and allow me to upload photos. I tested it with 3 different photos, 1 jpeg, 1 gif, and one png. They all seemed to load fine and I could view them, including thumbnails while the laptop was hooked to the ipod. However, when I umounted the nano (which is the latest version of the 1gb model) and checked for the pics on the nano’s screen, it will scroll to them and even lists the album I created, but each of the 3 test photos I loaded to it show up as a blank black screen. They seem fine when reviewing the database on the laptop but are blank when trying to view them on the ipod.

    So I’ve got it partially working. Only 2 problems now are having to deal with the false warning messages and not being able to see the photos on the ipod screen that I loaded to it. Any help with this would be great. I’m no programmer but I follow instructions well!

    Thanks for your great work!

14. myke Says:
    March 23rd, 2006 at 19:36

    btw … you suggested I check for the following file:

    /ipodmountpoint/iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo

    How do I check for that and make sure it’s correct?

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