unable to open service on OS X version 10.11.4

[dmierkin]

mitrys-iMac:foohid-py dmierkin$ sudo -H pip install foohid
Collecting foohid
Downloading foohid-0.1.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: foohid
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for foohid ... done
Stored in directory: /var/root/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/8c/e2/d9/f4a9244187cf9914242d8653710bab04da2b75dcd5af6fe88f
Successfully built foohid
Installing collected packages: foohid
Successfully installed foohid-0.1
Dmitrys-iMac:foohid-py dmierkin$ sudo python ./test_list.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./test_list.py", line 4, in
foohid.create("FooHID {0}".format(i), "xxx")
SystemError: unable to open it_unbit_foohid service

[aldur]

Hi, thanks for reporting.
The Python module needs yet to be updated to the latest release, will do ASAP.
In the meantime, you may try the example in this repository.

[dmierkin]

should i be able to create a virtual monitor?

[pinouchon]

I'm getting "Unable to open IOService." using the example on the read me. I'm running OSx 10.10.5

[drviver]

me too

[alarconOrtiz]

Hi i'm having the same problem in MacOS version 10.12.5 and I realized that the food was running.
MacBook-Alarcon:~ alarcon$ ls /Library/Extensions/ | grep foo
foohid.kext
MacBook-Alarcon:~ alarcon$ kextstat | grep foo
134 0 0xffffff7f80f11000 0x5000 0x5000 it.unbit.foohid (1) 42C9BF9F-EF05-3E29-B893-305C8B252B56 <34 5 4 3>