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blocks:drivers:concepts [2024-04-16 07:10]
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 If an adequate driver for your device already exists, using it is quite straightforward. If an adequate driver for your device already exists, using it is quite straightforward.
  
-  - Obtain the drivers. Drivers provided by PIXILAB may come as part of your Blocks installation, or can be downloaded from PIXILAB's [[https://github.com/pixilab/blocks-script|github page]]. Find the green "Code" dropdown button and select download zip. +  - Obtain the drivers. Drivers provided by PIXILAB may come as part of your Blocks installation, or can be downloaded from PIXILAB's [[https://github.com/pixilab/blocks-script|github page]]. Find the green "Code" dropdown button and select download ZIP. 
- +  - Install the file(s) into your Blocks server by extracting the ZIP and then copying all relevant files to the PIXILAB-Blocks-root/script directory, typically located in the home directory for the user under which Blocks runs. Do this file copying while logged in as that user to avoid any access permission problems. 
-  - Install the file(s) into your Blocks server by extract the zip archive and copy all relevant files to the PIXILAB-Blocks-root/script directory under your home directory. +
   - Some rarely used device drivers are located in the driver-archive directory. If you need any of those, move those over from the archive to the acive driver directory. While blocks ignore the source code (.ts) file and use the .js it still makes sense to move/copy both the .ts and .js file to keep them in the same place.   - Some rarely used device drivers are located in the driver-archive directory. If you need any of those, move those over from the archive to the acive driver directory. While blocks ignore the source code (.ts) file and use the .js it still makes sense to move/copy both the .ts and .js file to keep them in the same place.
   - Make sure to also copy the latest version of all files in //system// and //system_lib//, as well as the files //package.json, package-lock.json// and //tsconfig.json//, into corresponding directories on your server.    - Make sure to also copy the latest version of all files in //system// and //system_lib//, as well as the files //package.json, package-lock.json// and //tsconfig.json//, into corresponding directories on your server.