Hello everyone,
Hope someone can help me. I’m currently trying to use a python-application I wrote to run as an add-on for Home Assistant.
Sadly, I can’t get MIDI to work for the add-on. I’m using the python-rtmidi library.
I enabled full access on the hardware for the add-on and the library is imported correctly, but as soon as I try to open a MIDI port with python the add-on crashes.
Heres the full console output:
[s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc...exited 0.
[s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms...exited 0.
[fix-attrs.d] applying ownership & permissions fixes...
[fix-attrs.d] done.
[cont-init.d] executing container initialization scripts...
[cont-init.d] done.
[services.d] starting services
[services.d] done.
Python app started
Collecting wheel
Downloading wheel-0.37.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (35 kB)
Collecting python-osc
Downloading python_osc-1.8.0-py3-none-any.whl (32 kB)
Collecting python-rtmidi
Downloading python-rtmidi-1.4.9.tar.gz (251 kB)
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for python-rtmidi, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Installing collected packages: wheel, python-rtmidi, python-osc
Running setup.py install for python-rtmidi: started
Running setup.py install for python-rtmidi: still running...
Running setup.py install for python-rtmidi: finished with status 'done'
Successfully installed python-osc-1.8.0 python-rtmidi-1.4.9 wheel-0.37.1
Installed packages
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:466:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: Operation not permitted
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "src/_rtmidi.pyx", line 815, in rtmidi._rtmidi.MidiIn.__cinit__
RuntimeError: MidiInAlsa::initialize: error creating ALSA sequencer client object.
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "//app/main.py", line 43, in <module>
midi_client = MidiHandler(ls_bridge)
File "/app/MidiHandler.py", line 15, in __init__
self.connect_midi_console()
File "/app/MidiHandler.py", line 22, in connect_midi_console
self.midi_in_port, port_name = open_midiinput(1)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rtmidi/midiutil.py", line 270, in open_midiinput
return open_midiport(port, "input", api, use_virtual, interactive,
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rtmidi/midiutil.py", line 201, in open_midiport
midiobj = midiclass_(api, name=client_name)
File "src/_rtmidi.pyx", line 817, in rtmidi._rtmidi.MidiIn.__cinit__
rtmidi._rtmidi.SystemError: MidiInAlsa::initialize: error creating ALSA sequencer client object.
[cmd] /run.sh exited 1
[cont-finish.d] executing container finish scripts...
[cont-finish.d] done.
[s6-finish] waiting for services.
[s6-finish] sending all processes the TERM signal.
Here’s my Dockerfile:
(There are so many alpine requirements because the python-rtmidi library must compile the c++ code first)
ARG BUILD_FROM
FROM $BUILD_FROM
# Install requirements for add-on
RUN \
apk add --no-cache \
python3 \
py3-pip \
libc-dev \
python3-dev \
gcc \
g++ \
alsa-lib-dev \
jack-dev
# Python 3 HTTP Server serves the current working dir
# So let's set it to our add-on persistent data directory.
WORKDIR /
# Copy data for add-on
COPY run.sh /
COPY app /app
RUN chmod a+x /run.sh
CMD [ "/run.sh" ]
And the config.yaml:
name: "LightShark Bridge"
description: "This python-project enables to control the Work LightShark DMX-Console via HTTP and MIDI"
version: "1.1.0"
slug: "ls_bridge"
arch:
- aarch64
- amd64
- armhf
- armv7
- i386
startup: before
ports:
8000/tcp: 8000
full_access: true
the run.sh just installs the python libraries and executes the python application.
The code for the python_application can be found in github
