Resources

• Code repository on GitHub

• API reference documentation

• Code Examples

Requirements

• Python

• BlinkStick pip module

• Libusb for Mac OSX

Requirements Installation

sudo apt-get install python-pip

brew install libusb

sudo easy_install pip

ValueError: No backend available

sudo ln -s `brew --prefix`/lib/libusb-* /usr/local/lib/

BlinkStick package Installation

sudo pip install blinkstick

cmd

C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install blinkstick

Command line tool

Together with the Python module an additional command line tool is installed to control BlinkSticks.

blinkstick --pulse red

You can find more details about command line tool options and usage examples in the wiki.

Permission problems in Linux and Mac OS X

If the script returns with an error

Access denied (insufficient permissions)

You can either run the script with sudo, for example:

sudo blinkstick --set-color random

Or you can add a udev rule to allow any user to access the device without root permissions with this single command.

sudo blinkstick --add-udev-rule

There is also another equivalent command that does exactly the same thing:

echo "SUBSYSTEM==\"usb\", ATTR{idVendor}==\"20a0\", ATTR{idProduct}==\"41e5\", MODE:=\"0666\"" | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/85-blinkstick.rules

Reboot computer after you have added the command and all users will have permissions to access the device without the need of root permissions.

Maintainers

• Arvydas Juskevicius - http://twitter.com/arvydev

• Rob Berwick - http://twitter.com/robberwick