Place config files in home directory + debug

README.md

@@ -35,10 +35,11 @@ $pip3 install netifaces‑0.10.6‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl
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 ### 2022 Update
-Newer versions of Python appear to break this. To use python 3.6.5 again, I had to use something like this using pyenv
+Newer versions of Python appear to break this. To use python 3.6.5 again, I had to use `pyenv` like this:
 
 ```bash
 brew install pyenv
+pyenv install 3.6.5
 pyenv local 3.6.5
 ~/.pyenv/shims/pip3 install --upgrade pip
 ~/.pyenv/shims/pip3 install appJar lifxlan colour configobj numpy mss scipy pillow

lights.py

@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ def abs_resource_path(relative_path):
 
     elif (myos == 'Darwin') or (myos == 'Linux') :
         """ Get absolute path to resource, works for dev and for PyInstaller """
-        base_path =  os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
-        return os.path.join(base_path, relative_path)
+        #base_path =  os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+        return os.path.join(os.getenv("HOME"), relative_path)
 
 
 def resource_path(relative_path):
@@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@ def function_name():
 #print("type(config['bulbs']):",type(config['bulbs']))
 if os.path.exists(PICKLE):
     bulbPickle = pkl.load(open(PICKLE, "rb"))   #this reads the pickle
-    #print (bulbPickle)
+    print ("bulbPickle: ",bulbPickle)
     bulbList.clear()
     bulbList.append("-Select Bulb-")
     bulbList.append("Select All Bulbs In LAN")