I'm trying to add the library from this website located here GitHub - 4dsystems/ViSi-Genie-Arduino-Library: ViSi-Genie - Arduino Library. However, when I follow the instruction for adding a library located on arduinos website here http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Libraries, it tells me the following message in the IDE after trying to load in this library.
The library "ViSi-Genie-Arduino-Library-master" cannot be used. Library names can only contain basic numbers and letters. (ASCII only and no spaces, and it cannot start with a number.
So I changed the zip file name to VisiGenie.zip but it still said the same message. Any ideas?
Please disregard. I've figured out my own problem. For records I will include a brief summary of how I fixed the issue.
Issue:
The IDE was not recognizing the library I added. I renamed the zip folder genieArduino but when I did this it was renaming a subfolder of the main folder that was unzipped. In other words the top level folder was not renamed to "genieArduino" like it should be. Therefore, it was still showing the same error I mentioned in my original post.
My Fix:
Top level folders of any Library you add should be renamed to resemble the exact name of the .h and .cpp files of that new library your adding. Since the files were called genieArduino.h and genieArduino.cpp I had to rename the top level folder to genieArduino. I was naming it "GenieLib" which is WRONG.
Also there was a complete revision of this library "genieArduino" which can be downloaded here GitHub - 4dsystems/ViSi-Genie-Arduino-Library: ViSi-Genie - Arduino Library. The old library needs to be deleted for this new library to take full effect. Otherwise having both libraries in the Arduino library folder will cause errors and issues.