Eyetracking Calibration stimuli won't show up

OS (e.g. Win10): Win10
PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x): 2023.2.2

I have been experiencing issues using Tobii Pro Fusion in PsychoPy. Previously, PsychoPy threw error messages saying “couldn’t find default_eyetracker.yaml …” I solved the problem, see [Errno 2] No such file or directory: \default_eyetracker.yaml - Builder - PsychoPy . This may or may not relate to the problem I’m facing now.

So, I finally get the eye tracker up and running, and I created a simple calibration routine (no customized changes), but in the Calibration, the stimuli won’t show. What I got was a grey screen and no meaningful error message.

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In the Validation, the stimuli showed! (thank god), but I cannot exit the validation result page by pressing space bar (as it requested). I have to force quit PsychoPy.

Any advice and tips will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance :sob:

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Hi! @Jun_Fang

I have the same issues of calibration missing and validation freezing too. I figure the former one out by set the radious and border value much larger than the default ones, and it should be shown on your screen.
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However the latter one about validation still stuck me. The latest released version (2023.2.3) mentioned this problem and fixed it, but I still get a freezing validation.(Maybe you can updated and check it).

Please let me know if you find a solution, thank you very much!

Binjie_Yang

a quick solution is to use PsychoPy version 2023.1.1, I have no issues with this version.

Thank you for your reply!
I’ll try it.