Can't see addon installed in blender 5

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hello there, i wanted to install blender connector in my blender 5.0. i downloaded the installer and i ran it. i expected it to show in my blender addons list. but it did not show up.

i believe that it is installing for a wrong blender version but, i already have removed all other blender versions completely

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Hello, is there any timeframe for a 5.0 release ?

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Hey @here ,

We added this to our planning now. We’ll add support for it in the upcoming days/weeks.

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Blender 5.1 Alpha recently switched to Python 3.13 version.

This deactivated Speckle v3 (*) and Bonsai Extensions.
Speckle just does not appear in “N-Panel”, while Bonsai flew out and can’t be installed again (and does no more auto update).

Bonsai offered 3.11 and 3.12 versions but is already testing Bonsai with Python 3.14, which AFAIK works for compiling Bonsai without large issues.

This is my experience on Mac
(I’m still V3.20, which works OK with latest official Blender 5.0.1 - and also did with 5.1 Alpha, before the Python switch)
Not sure if it would work with the latest V3.31

On Windows I had the same experience with V3 Connector. Did not install for Blender 5.0

So i am also looking forward to the planned update for 5.0.

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As we’ve mentioned before, we never seek to support Alpha versions of software, but thanks for the heads-up on future dependencies.

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Yes, I know.
And it is ok (as long there are ways to circumference for testing)

No clue if things like Python are downward compatible or why Blender went especially 3.13 for a release a few month away.

If I got that right, current official Python is 3.14.x - maybe using that could help to gain some hassle free extra time before Blenders next switch.

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BTW,

I upgraded my Blender “Mac” connectors by the latest V3 versions on Github via running “export_dependencies.sh” in Terminal. It worked great so far - it worked until 3.3.1.

So just as an info, in case that could be an issue …

Today I found a new 3.3.2 version and did the same (Blender 5.0.1 official) but it will no more “activate” in AddOns.

The Warnings were :

Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Blender/5.0/extensions/user_default/speckle_blender_addon/connector/ui/update_panel.py”, line 26, in draw
from … import bl_info
ImportError: cannot import name ‘bl_info’ from ‘bl_ext.user_default.speckle_blender_addon’ (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Blender/5.0/extensions/user_default/speckle_blender_addon/init.py)

and

No module named ‘specklepy.core.api.inputs.model_ingestion_inputs’

But I can confirm it installs and works on Windows.
For Mac I went back to 3.3.1.

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Thanks, that brings the number of incompatibility reports for 5.0.1 to two :smiley:

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AFAIR the Windows versions installed and worked on 5.0.1 again since a v3.3.1 “Beta” .exe or so. For me it seems to work fine with 3.3.2 too.

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I managed to get Speckle working on 5.0.1 but not the relatively new 5.1. Not sure what’s changed in Blender between those two releases.

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Hey @Pauly ,
Blender connector does not support 5.1 yet. We will add support for it soon. How did you try to install it in 5.1?

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I previously had a few versions of Blender installed (3.6, 4.5, 5.0, 5.1), and there was seemingly no way to tell the Speckle installer where to install. After I ran the installer, I think it installed it in 4.5’s add-ons. I could then activate it successfully. I then thought I’d try to force Speckle to install in 5.1 by uninstalling all other versions of Blender, then running the Speckle installer again. I can’t remember if it either didn’t show up in the Add-ons prefs at all, or if it gave an error “Cannot automatically ensure Speckle dependencies. Please try restarting the host application”.

Anyway - an update: After reading this and seeing that it should install on Blender 5.0 on Windows, I uninstalled everything (all Blender versions), installed 5.0.1, then successfully installed Speckle on it. I then installed Blender 5.1, and once again ran the Speckle installer, not really knowing where it would install. When I first launched Blender 5.1, I said “import prefs from 5.0”, and Speckle is now working perfectly in 5.1 - without me having to activate it in the prefs > Add-ons.

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