Hi!
I’m wanting to use a public running pavlovia experiment (of the Iowa gambling task) on PsychoPy on my personal computer to collect data from a group of participants I have recruited (for a thesis project). I download the zip file and inputted the psyexp file into Psychopy. The task shows up, however when I run the experiment numerous errors arise (coding errors as well as monitor size errors) and it doesn’t let me run the experiment.
Please let me know if you have any advice on how to run Pavlovia public experiments on PsychoPy for collecting specific participants data. Thank you!
Best wishes
Hello @cw_psych
Please post the error messages here. Ignore the warnings about the monitor size. They are irrelevant here.
Best wishes Jens
Hi Jens,
Thank you for your quick reply. Here are the errors:
472.0264 WARNING Could not get image from: https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/889b841651b91558a08b32837c644f55?s=80&d=identicon, using blank image instead.
472.1535 WARNING Parameters not known to this version of PsychoPy have come from your experiment file: plCompanionCameraCalibration. This experiment may not run correctly in the current version.
472.1592 INFO Loaded monitor calibration from [‘2025_11_25 21:14’]
472.2028 WARNING Parameters not known to this version of PsychoPy have come from your experiment file: plCompanionCameraCalibration. This experiment may not run correctly in the current version.
472.2059 INFO Loaded monitor calibration from [‘2025_11_25 21:14’]
472.3419 WARNING Parameters not known to this version of PsychoPy have come from your experiment file: plCompanionCameraCalibration. This experiment may not run correctly in the current version.
Generating PsychoPy script…
Running: /Users/carolinewelch/Desktop/iowa_gambling_task-master/iowa_gambling_task_lastrun.py
2025-12-01 14:51:22.126 python[70503:11973503] ApplePersistenceIgnoreState: Existing state will not be touched. New state will be written to /var/folders/38/_x0vzv0s2y9f9j5dl_lwsk4c0000gn/T/org.opensciencetools.psychopy.savedState
Traceback (most recent call last):
11.1050 WARNING Font Manager failed to load file /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FontServices.framework/Resources/Reserved/PingFangUI.ttc
File “/Users/carolinewelch/Desktop/iowa_gambling_task-master/iowa_gambling_task_lastrun.py”, line 1896, in
setupDevices(expInfo=expInfo, thisExp=thisExp, win=win)
File “/Users/carolinewelch/Desktop/iowa_gambling_task-master/iowa_gambling_task_lastrun.py”, line 265, in setupDevices
ioServer = io.launchHubServer(window=win, **ioConfig)
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/psychopy/contrib/lazy_import.py”, line 118, in call
return obj(*args, **kwargs)
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/psychopy/iohub/client/connect.py”, line 260, in launchHubServer
return ioHubConnection(iohub_config)
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.10/psychopy/iohub/client/init.py”, line 300, in init
raise RuntimeError(‘Error starting ioHub server: {}’.format(self.iohub_status))
RuntimeError: Error starting ioHub server: ioHub startup failed.
11.1713 WARNING Font Manager failed to load file /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FontServices.framework/Resources/Reserved/PingFangUI.ttc
16.8817 WARNING User requested fullscreen with size [1280 800], but screen is actually [1710, 1107]. Using actual size
######## Experiment ended with exit code 1 [pid:70503] #########
Thank you! Got it sorted, that fixed it!