I embedded a pavlovia survey into my psychopy experiment that I plan to run online. As I have no credits yet, I would like to test how the survey looks in the browser and am thus in pilot mode (both for the survey and in psychopy). When running the pilot of the experiment in my browser, I get the following error message:
“Unfortunately we encountered the following error:
when preparing resources for experiment: psychopy test
survey models cannot be downloaded when the experiment is running locally
Try to run the experiment again. If the error persists, contact the experiment designer.”
I’m a bit confused why it says that I’m running the experiment locally, as I am explicitly running it in my browser. I suspect that this might have something to do with the fact that the survey and/or experiment is still in pilot mode, but I have no way of verifying this. Is this indeed the problem and if so, is there another way that I can pilot the experiment with the survey included?
there are two piloting modes. One which runs your experiment offline in a browser. In this case nothing is uploaded to Pavlovia. The other mode is offered after you have synced your experiment to Pavlovia. There you set the experiment to inactive, piloting or running.
I know that I can pilot my survey by itself and that does work, so that’s no issue. I just want to verify that the link between the two actually works because I don’t want this error to persist once I actually get credits and share the experiment with real participants. That’s why I asked whether my suspected reason was correct or whether something else is causing it, in which case I’d like to fix it.
I’ve set both the experiment and the survey to piloting in Pavlovia. The error persists if I set both of them to running. Only when I set both to running AND start the experiment by running it (Javascript) within psychopy, I get a different message, namely that I don’t have enough credits. So my question is whether if I had the credits, the error would persist or go away.
