Import Error: no module named serial

[Mark Penner]

Hi all,
I'm trying to use Kivy as a medium between a joystick and an Arduino.  My basic Python test programs to talk to the Arduino using pyserial work, but when I add the line "import serial" to a kivy program, it returns an import error "Import Error: No module named serial".  Other outside packages like pygame seem to work inside kivy...

I have no idea what could be going on, any thoughts?

Thanks,
Mark

[Thomas Pietrowski]

You need to add the serial module to your project or install it via python-for-android. But I'm not sure it is included as a recipe in the compilation script.
As PySerial is fully arch-independent as it is written in python, you can for the beginning add it to the project folder as I did for my project using the Kivy launcher.

Don't forget to use a xterm to find out, how the arduino is named in /dev/tty*.

[Mark Penner]

The pyserial folder is in the project folder and Pyserial works when the script is run from the interpreter, but not when run through kivy.  Any time I add the line 'import serial' to a program and send it to kivy, it spits out an error.  Are you saying that I need to do something with filepaths so that kivy knows where to look?  Copying the Pyserial folder to the kivy\python\include\ folder didn't do anything, but I have no idea if that's what you meant.

Thanks for the reply!

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