ioHub and pyHook

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Hello, I just installed psychopy 1.84. I was testing the ioHub demos because I want to use eyetracking but it seems pyhook is required and missing. The error I get is:

File “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\lib\site-packages\psychopy-1.84.0-py2.7.egg\psychopy\iohub\devices\keyboard\win32.py”, line 13, in
import pyHook
ImportError: No module named pyHook

How can I add pyHook to psychopy?

Thanks for your time.

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Hi I am experiencing exactly this issue also the Demos for
iohub_basic and
iohub_extended

have disappeared I wonder whether the iohub stuff is deprecated??

Philip

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I had similar ioHub issues with 1.83, and, looking at the forums, others did as well. 1.82.01 is what I am currently running, and that works (OS X).

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No help here I’m afriad but I also experienced difficulties in installing the standalone code - it starting complaining about a failure to find an .msi file.

The work around was to run it from the command line initially and that then seemed to calm it down.

Philip.

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I’ll make sure that pyHook is part of the upcoming bug-fix release. Sorry - it’s a dependency that I’d forgotten about (it’s only windows which I don’t use very often myself)

Philip, the issue with the msg file I haven’t seen, but that sounds like a different thing altogether. If it persists can you open a separate question? thanks

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pyhook is now included in the win release:
New release: 1.84.1

Hopefully that fixes that problem (I don’t know about the msi installer issue)

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That is awesome!

Thanks for the quick fix :slight_smile:

Best regards,

M

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Hi, @jon,

I re-encountered this problem (No module named ‘pyHook’) when using v1.90.1 (PY3) on win 10.
Is it possible this module is not included in this version?

Update:
I tried the latest PY3 version, it doesn’t have the pyHook module, but the PY2 version does. Hope the next version will included this, 2020 is coming! :wink:

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As always, packaging turns out to be non-trivial. Turns out that the maintainers of pyHook don’t build wheels for us to install with pip and don’t support python 3 installers. In fact it looks like they haven’t been maintaining pyHook at all, so we might need to go elsewhere to get this functionality in the future.
But I found some unofficial wheels compiled for Py36 so it looks like we’re up and running. This will be fixed in the 3.0.0b8 release