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In this sequence of events, the workspace display does not show:

1. Host and pewpew turned off (and connected)
2. Turn on pewpew
3. Turn on host

Workaround: reboot pewpew.

Just noticed the installation instructions do not mention how to get code.py onto the PewPew unit; (when writing this issue deployment is conveniently done via tox -e deploy)

adafruit/circuitpython#1193

This package will depend on entry point based discovery as it has dependencies that need to be installed. This is best accomplished by installling py3status in a dedicated virtualenv and installing pew3wm alongside it.

This should be sufficiently documented and ideally contains some explanations and alternative approaches (to be determined)

After having gotten pew3wm working on a couple i3 machines, one Ubuntu 16.04 and one 18.04, and rebooting, it got back into a state where the buttons are not responding, and the module shows red in py3status bar. The active workspace number does show intermittently, though.

Failed salvage attempts:

• Rebooting pewpew
• Reconnecting pewpew
• Re-deploying code.py
• Switching to fresh batteries
• Rebooting host machine

I believe this might be the state you were experiencing too, @obestwalter.

Currently it's only possible to deploy by doing something like this:

$ git clone <repo url>
$ cd pew3wm
$ tox -e deploy

... i.e "developer deploy". We would like an end user UX similar to this:

$ pip install py3status-pewpew
$ <configure your i3status.conf or pewpew!>

Noticed repository changed name to py3status-pewpew nice @obestwalter

Any particular reason why setup.py still uses the, now legacy, name "pew3wm" (other than nostalgia! heh)?

How do we use the PewPew continously by our desks...? This is getting useful, and switching battery once a day will very soon be very annoying :)

Dream: PewPew uses USB cable power directly from PC.
2nd best: Document how to wire cables in order to draw power from some other USB cable or other power source.

Currently there is no example of how to configure buttons in the i3status.conf file.

Adding the module to py3status bar is a s simple as:

order += "pewpew"