Use on mac?
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Before i get too deep here, I am trying to understand if this can be packaged into an electron app and be used across platforms. Is this possible?
I don't own a mac and I don't even know about electron app. So I guess it's not possible for me, but perhaps you could do it on your own?
I guess more specifically I have been trying to build libfprint on a mac as a pre-requisite to using your package, and at the make step of this installation process I am getting
Making all in libfprint
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -fvisibility=hidden -I./nbis/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.48.1/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.48.1/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/pcre/8.39/include -I/usr/include -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -Wall -Wundef -Wunused -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-pointer-sign -Wshadow -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -MT libfprint_la-poll.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libfprint_la-poll.Tpo -c -o libfprint_la-poll.lo `test -f 'poll.c' || echo './'`poll.c
libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -fvisibility=hidden -I./nbis/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.48.1/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.48.1/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/pcre/8.39/include -I/usr/include -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -Wall -Wundef -Wunused -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-pointer-sign -Wshadow -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -MT libfprint_la-poll.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libfprint_la-poll.Tpo -c poll.c -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/libfprint_la-poll.o
poll.c:28:10: fatal error: 'libusb.h' file not found
#include <libusb.h>
^
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [libfprint_la-poll.lo] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2I understand that this problem is out of the jurisdiction of your project here, I am just hoping to pick up any contextual insight you may have here since you worked with this tool.
libfprint depends on libusb, so you will need to build libusb too.
Once I had a mac book and I remember that " MacPorts" was good for such usually linux libraries.
EDIT: https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=libusb
Sadly they don't have integrated libfprint yet.
@Koleok, I am thinking of trying out @ephraim 's library as well within an Electron app. In my case, I will be running on Linux (specifically Ubuntu). Curious if you had any success in getting this module to work with Electron? @ephraim, this looks promising! Really appreciate you sharing with the public! I want to use this to manage a U.are.U 4500 Reader. Is the best way to know how to utilize your module just to look at your test scripts? I didn't see any other documentation or anything I could utilize.
@twferrell I am also using the U.are.U 4500. Right now in my electron app i am successfully using the npm java package to just wrap calls to a .jar that uses the java SDK that digitalPersona/crossmatch makes available.
This is just not ideal though since the target machine must have both a correct java runtime and the OEM dirvers installed.
The environment this app's customers use this electron app in is exclusively windows. So I'm not sure if i have much of a chance to use this lovely node-fprint after all.
@twferrell: Sorry no real documentation available. But you can have a look at the node-red-contrib-fprint node, this utilizes node-fprint to bring the functionality into node-red.
Ask if you have any questions about the api.
Here the functions node-fprint exports:
init
exit
discoverDevices
openDevice
closeDevice
getEnrollStages <= How many times you need to enroll your finger, depends on the reader.
enrollStart
enrollStop
verifyStart
verifyStop
identifyStart
identifyStop
setDebug <= parameter goes directly into fp_set_debug
Hope that helps!
@ephraim, really appreciate it. This should help. I'll go through the node-red examples today. By the way, this is my first time hearing about this node-red. This project itself looks interesting. Also looking at IBM Bluemix now, which I found while looking into node-red. I think I'll install node-red module and see if I can hook up your custom node to a debug node and see output from my device as it's getting discovered. Very interesting stuff. Thanks again!
@ephraim, Okay, through much trial & error I finally got all the dependencies working (so exciting!!) and now able to see your extra functions in my node-red instance (see my screenshot here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fbbz30sx6nou9uj/node-red.jpg?dl=0). Dumb question, but how do I actually see something happening in this? I tried connecting some of the FP functions to a Debug node, but not sure what I'm doing since new to node-red. Any feedback you can give me would be huge help as I'm excited about this now, but still learning...
@ephraim, just wanted to let you know I got the module working today and using it successfully in my Electron application! Just wanted to say thanks a million for publishing this on github!! This really saved me some time! I gave this repo a Star!!
Glad you made it! 👍
For node-red: You have Input nodes (start nodes), Output Nodes (end nodes) and the rest (mostly function nodes). For the start you mostly use an Inject node and configure it to inject a blank message.
You can wire this to a fp enroll node for example and the positive output of the enroll node to a debug node and a fp verify node.
So if you successfully enrolled an finger, this finger will directly be verified.
@Koleok Could you share the solution found to connect the Electron in DigitalPersona? Thanks
@felisio This issue kind of morphed, @twferrell was running on ubuntu, and therefore he was able to install libfprint and be off to the races with his electron integration, I am still very much in bind and have started work on a native c++/node wrapper with cmake/DP c++ sdk
@Koleok You say "Right now in my electron app i am successfully using the npm java package to just wrap calls to a .jar that uses the java SDK that digitalPersona/crossmatch makes available." I need the same solution, I'm trying to load the mac, most can not find the link that Drive in Java, will be that you could share I try to upload here?
Hi guys, is there a way to delete fingerprint ?
node-fprint doesn't save any fingerprint data itself, when I remember correclty.
So it depends on you where you save it and how you delete the fingerprint.
Only the matching can't be done on a server or something, but needs to be done on a computing device with a fingerprint sensor connected.
@ephraim ok understood.
I was trying out with test script and node-red repo you provided. Enroll is working fine, and returning fingerprint, but i am not able to get past verify or identify. All the result is Match Failed. Screenshot below:
Occasionally on verify/identify it will throw error stated below:
Try again please. State: -5
enroll-unknown-error inside enroll start. -5
*** Error in `node': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x00007f81780008c0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x777e5)[0x7f819c9ca7e5]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x8037a)[0x7f819c9d337a]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(cfree+0x4c)[0x7f819c9d753c]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-1.0.so.0(+0x8a6f)[0x7f819a313a6f]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-1.0.so.0(libusb_handle_events_timeout_completed+0xd3)[0x7f819a314b53]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint.so.0(fp_handle_events_timeout+0x86)[0x7f8188ef2af6]
/home//sites/node-sample/node_modules/node-fprint/build/Release/fingerprint.node(_Z7poll_fpPv+0x48)[0x7f819a749a48]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x76ba)[0x7f819cd2a6ba]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7f819ca5a41d]
OS: Ubuntu 16.04
Device: Digital Persona 4000B
Packages installed: libusb-dev, libfprint-dev, libfprint0
p.s What is the difference between verify and identify ?
Hi guys, been trying but still no luck. Is my device not supported ? @twferrell Have you encounter this before ?
verify is comparing 1:1
identify is comparing 1:n
Are the test scripts from the repo working? Then node-red should work too.
Can you reproduce the error via script instead of in node-red?
Cheers,
Ephraim
I have tried both, script with nodejs and node-red, having the same issue, able to enroll but fail at verify/identify.
OS: Ubuntu 16.04
Device: Digital Persona 4000B
Here is a list of supported devices of libfprint.
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/libfprint/Supported_devices/
As this issue is "Use on a Mac" and you don't use Mac OS, please do open another issue for further investigation.
The original issue was long time not updated so I close it now.