Basic macOS-support

[PixelAlarm]

• Enable usage on macOS: Add platform "Darwin" to informationservice.py to make app run on macOS

• add .DS_Store to .gitignore

[mgineer85]

Hey, I am curious, I do not have a mac.
Does the app start for you and is usable?
Which backends work for you? Probably only virtual camera and opencv webcam?

[PixelAlarm]

Hi,

yes. The app is starting and displays correctly.
„Same“ experience as in linux.
The App is also available in local Network.

As you mentioned, backends are only Virtual webcam and webcamvc2. I have gphoto2 installed, but its not in the backends-list.

If I can help with testing on mac, feel free to contact me :)

[mgineer85]

Hm, I could add automated tests for Mac also. Not sure how gphoto performs on mac

[flsabourin]

VirtualCam and Webcamvc2 works fine, but how to get it working with gphoto2?

[mgineer85]

You mean for Mac? @PixelAlarm did you make it work on your system on a mac? I did not dive deeper in that because I do not own a mac.

[flsabourin]

You mean for Mac? @PixelAlarm did you make it work on your system on a mac? I did not dive deeper in that because I do not own a mac.

Yes for Mac.
GPhoto2 alone works well (in CLI), but it is not (yet) a backend for photobooth-app apparently.
Unless there is a config I missed?

[mgineer85]

No you did not miss anything.
I just release a new version 4.1.6 which allows to select the gphoto2 backend on Darwin platform and also installs the gphoto2 pip package.

So please update to latest version, check that it installed gphoto2 as dependency and then try if it works out of the box.

Good luck ;)

https://pypi.org/project/photobooth-app/
244970c

[flsabourin]

Thanks for your update @mgineer85 !
I now have the gphoto2 option on the UI, however, when I trigger the "Take photo" action, it doesn't seem to recognize the backend and fails:
https://pastebin.com/Jty6g5Ga

Gphoto2 is well installed into the vent
➜ ~ pipx runpip photobooth-app install gphoto2 Requirement already satisfied: gphoto2 in ./.local/pipx/venvs/photobooth-app/lib/python3.13/site-packages (2.5.1)

[mgineer85]

hi - there must be more logs. We need to see what happend from the start of the app until the moment you trigger a capture.
It seems the initialization fails - no idea yet, why.

When you start the program on the console, you might see live what errors occur.

[PixelAlarm]

You mean for Mac? @PixelAlarm did you make it work on your system on a mac? I did not dive deeper in that because I do not own a mac.

I didn‘t investigate the MacOS-backends further, since I mostly use the Mac-Support for testing some CSS-fiddling.
I‘m looking forward to test the new gPhoto2-addition though.

gphoto2 seems to be not future-proof on macos though: gphoto/libgphoto2#1064 (comment)

[mgineer85]

I have no idea if gphoto2 will be usable in the future on macos, but good to know about this upcoming issue. Keep it in mind.