Newbie - help with testing

Hello!

I am having a lot of issues getting started with Pyhamilton. I have a lot of experience using Hamiltons as a tech and am now working on creating my own methods using Pyhamilton. My first goal was just to replicate some methods just to get my software working. I am following a guide for a checkerboard dispense via youtube -

I got my software to mostly work, however, when I run it the method basically just ends. I don’t see the checkerboard being made (or simulated) in my deck layout. Theres also not a finished product, just my tip and plate carriers.

I am wondering if there is some setting i’m not aware of, that shows the simulated method as it’s working? I have basically copied and pasted the same code that was shown in the youtube video (changing only file location/name parameters/etc.)

Any help or any hints on where to find a good newbie guide would be most appreciated.

Hi, welcome to the forum!

Here is our classic Getting Started guide: https://labautomation.io/t/getting-started-with-pyhamilton

The general rule for PyHamilton is that there are two places to look when hunting down bugs, the Hamilton trace file and the Python stack trace. Generally we try to push errors from the former to the latter based on the built-in error handling functionality, but this isn’t possible for some errors, so it’s good to check both if you are stuck.

Let me know what you find once you’ve done that