Make nextion.py compatible with python3

[DevSHIBBY]

Hi everyone,

I'm almost done setting up MMDVM on a fresh Raspbian bullseye installation.
This distro has no support for python2 and it's impossible to get python-serial from apt-get:
Package python-serial is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package 'python-serial' has no installation candidate

Could it be possible to update or create another version that fully supports python3 please?

The other issue with "print" function was easy to overcome though.

[exxecute]

u can use pyserial lib

[RandomEngineer]

Did you get this working in Python3?
I couldn't convert it from version 2 myself.

[DevSHIBBY]

Hi RandomEngineer,

I finally gave up porting nextion.py to python3 due to lack of time. The reason that led me to try a recent version of MMDVMHost was frequent connection losses to the DAPNET server, but I've found a quick and dirty workaround that consists of restarting the DAPNETGateway service periodically, using crontab.
I'm still interested in a python3 version of nextion.py though.

[DevSHIBBY]

Maybe this could help: https://pypi.org/project/GPS-clock/
Search for nextion.py on that page.