Kubuntu error

[yahoo1999]

Hello there!
I own Steelseries Rival 300, and when I try to do anything with rivalctl I got this error
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/rivalctl", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('rivalctl==0.1', 'console_scripts', 'rivalctl')() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rivalctl-0.1-py2.7.egg/rival/rivalctl.py", line 67, in main _main(args) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rivalctl-0.1-py2.7.egg/rival/rivalctl.py", line 47, in _main send_reports(reports) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rivalctl-0.1-py2.7.egg/rival/rivalctl.py", line 19, in send_reports send(report) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rivalctl-0.1-py2.7.egg/rival/rival.py", line 44, in send device = open_device() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rivalctl-0.1-py2.7.egg/rival/rival.py", line 33, in open_device return hidraw.HIDRaw(open(dev_path, 'w+')) TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found

I'm using Kubuntu 14.04, got the same error on Ubuntu.

[nixi-awoo]

I would suggest trying out one of the forks.
I have my own fork which should work. If not, then I can fix it quickly.
https://github.com/nixi-awoo/rivalctl

Install it using python3 and everything should work just fine.
Delete your current python2 install before trying a different version.

rm /usr/local/bin/rivalctl
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rivalctl-0.1-py2.7.egg/

[ohyran]

I have the VERY same issue on Arch. Also I am sort of curious IF there is any interest in doodling up a GUI for it?

Nixi: will try yours as well