Leap Motion working with Python?

[Jackson27]

For a highschool class of mine I'm trying to use the Leap motion to control a robot arm in python, many tutorials I found online seem outdated. For starters I just want to extract simple values from the LEAP and print them into my command prompt. I found this tutorial online but importing Leap doesn't seem to work and I get an error.

Keep in mind I just started learning python from the ground up, so keep things simple for me please. Thanks.

[myk]

I ran into a similar problem. From what I can gather, they are not supporting things outside their push to VR. I've been able to get things working with the javascript/HTML stuff, so you might try that if it's an option.

[Jackson27]

Do you know if it's still supported with any of the C languages?

[myk]

I haven't tried that because it's too damn complicated to get a code development environment set up with old code like this. I don't have the background or time to hack on something that I can't get going within an hour or so. The issue I have right now is the browser needs to be in the foreground for the Leap->javascript->WebMIIDI signals to go through.

[ericjohanson]

Hi Jackson and MYK,

So here is the breakdown. Currently, V2 and V3 of leap motion are not supported. They work, but no updates are being done to them.

V4 is our present version, which is a C style API and there is a C# binding (unity modules package). https://developer.leapmotion.com/documentation/v4/index.html

If you want to use the websocket, you can enable web apps in the control panel. Once you have done that you can go to this link https://developer-archive.leapmotion.com/documentation/javascript/_static/JSONViewer.html to see a live view of the data being sent over the websocket. We have a library implemented to access the websocket (https://github.com/leapmotion/leapjs).

Let me know if this helps.

Best,
Eric