Impossible loading plugin Avaframe connector on mac

[LucaDella8]

Hello,
I'm trying to add the AvaFrameConnector plugin to Qgis (Standard / Operational installation).
But I got the error:
Impossible to load the plugin 'avaframeConnector' due to an error calling the method classFactory()
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'avaframe'

1. QGIS already installed in my pc
2. Open the terminal
3. python3 -m pip install --user avaframe
4. python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade numpy pandas
5. open QGIS and try to add the plugin within the Manage Install Plugins
6. Got the error

These are the error print screen:

OS: macOS Monterey, version 12.4

Thanks, Luca

[fso42]

Hi Luca,
Thanks for your report!

It seems QGis uses another python installation than the system one on Mac OS, or it does not honour the user-installed packages. I don't have a Mac on hand to test this.
I see the following possible solutions:

• You could try to install avaframe without the '--user' option.

• I previously managed to install avaframe on an older macOS version; see Running the standard installation on MacOS throws an encoding error  #581. This works by staying in the same conda python environment. Unfortunately, the version of QGis supplied via conda forge is still 3.18, which is not very satisfactory...

• Try to install avaframe from within QGis (via the console); see here: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/418274/installing-python-module-using-pip-via-python-console-in-qgis-3-22

Maybe one of these helps...

[LucaDella8]

Hello Felix, Unfortunaltely the first and the third options did not work. The second option could be the nicer but as you said it is not so satisfactory. So, for the moment I will use the development version and not the Operational ones. Thanks, for the moment, ciao Luca

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[fso42]

Hi Luca,
I have some feedback from another macOS user (thanks, Rudi!); he has it running on macOS.

He has the following feedback on your problem:

• To install avaframe with the QGis python, he uses:

cd /Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/
./python3 -m pip install avaframe
./python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade numpy pandas.

The info about AvaFrame not being found pops up from time to time without any discernable pattern.
He then calls python3 -m pip show avaframe and python3 -m pip show numpy, and it works again.

To avoid having to do this all the time, he automated it via Automator or shell script:

python3 -m pip show numpy
python3 -m pip show avaframe
/Applications/QGIS-LTR.app/Contents/MacOS/QGIS.

However, be aware: inside QGis, he has to run it in batch mode:

[LucaDella8]

Ciao Felix, yesterday somehow I was trying something similar to that solution. So working within the QGIS python, but I was getting the same error that I have now, making the steps you list. Installing avaframe, numpy and pandas within: /Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/ Using: $ ./python3 -m pip show avaframe I got the right location, for both avaframe and numpy: Location: /Applications/QGIS-LTR.app/Contents/Resources/python/site-packages Than I open QGIS from the command line: /Applications/QGIS-LTR.app/Contents/MacOS/QGIS And finally I try to add the the Plugin but I have this error: <img width="640" alt="Error_avaframe" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/102517410/177478346-9e7454a0-b09c-41f4-bd55-9e209ef3f0af.png">

[fso42]

Hi Luca, I can't see your error, there seems to be an image missing?

[LucaDella8]

I update the link with the screenshot

[fso42]

This seems to happen for other plugins as well, e.g. here (in German) BergWerkGIS/VoGIS-Profil-Tool#21
they point towards this solution: maptiler/qgis-maptiler-plugin#140 (comment)
Not sure if this helps...

[LucaDella8]

I upgrade pip and Pillow as described here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66308383/pillow-not-installing-on-apple-silicon

then I did again the procedure suggest by Rudi, but I have a new error:

[fso42]

Since you are on the development installation, you need to do the
python setup.py build_ext --inplace
step.
At least I think that's what's missing here...

[LucaDella8]

Why you say I'm on the development installation? Here I'm trying to install the Plugin in QGIS to use the Standard / Operational installation.

[fso42]

Uh sorry, I got that wrong!
I'm currently releasing version 1.2, maybe you can try to update once I updated the pip installation files...

[LucaDella8]

ok

[LucaDella8]

Ciao Felix, since I was not checking anymore and only using the development version, I did not try anymore. Today I was trying with the new version of avaframe but still have problems to use it directly within qgis.

Here the errors that appear. Do you have new suggestions or the same you told me some month ago?
I try with two different version of qgis (3.30.0 RC and 3.28.4 LTR) but more or less I had the same problems. It follow asking to close/restart qgis every time I launch qgis and I still get errors on loading the plugin and on trying to run an avaframe command. It does not find the avaframe module.

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Best regards, Luca

[fso42]

Hi @LucaDella8 : I moved the discussion to #837