Plover Stenograph

A Plover plugin for using newer Stenograph machines (Stentura Protégé and Fusion, Élan Mira and Cybra, Diamanté, Wave, Luminex) connected to the computer over USB or Wi-Fi.

This is a work-in-progress rewrite of the plover-stenograph-usb and plover-stenograph-wifi plugins to reuse code and add more protocol functionality.

macOS (Stenograph USB)

PyUSB needs libusb 1.0 on the system. The pyusb_libusb1_backend dependency does not ship a compiled libusb for typical installs, so on macOS you should install libusb yourself, for example:

brew install libusb

Inside the signed Plover.app, PyUSB may not discover Homebrew’s library via the default search path. This plugin tries common locations (/opt/homebrew/lib, /usr/local/lib, /opt/local/lib) after the default lookup.

Installing this plugin from the terminal

If Plugin Manager fails while building (e.g. unrecognized arguments: -u -c), install with the Python interpreter inside Plover.app and Plover’s plugin prefix:

export PYTHONUSERBASE="$HOME/Library/Application Support/plover/plugins/mac"
PY="/Applications/Plover.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python3"
"$PY" -m plover.plugins_manager install plover-stenograph

See opensteno/plover#1841 for background on No backend available on macOS.