Would love a little help getting Jupyter Notebook working with Unity.

When you go to the

ml-agent/notebooks/directory

there are two notebook files.

getting-started-gym.ipynb

and

getting-started.ipynb

.

I can get the gym environment to run correctly, where it asks you to hit play on unity and runs, but not the other one. What is the difference between the two? Any guesses why the non-gym environment wont run? Can I only control Unity using python gym environment?

The problem starts when running the Start Environment section of

getting-started.ipynb

I do not receive any notification to hit Play in Unity. Once that block of code times out i get.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. UnityTimeOutException: The Unity environment took too long to respond. Make sure that :
3.     The environment does not need user interaction to launch
4.     The Agents are linked to the appropriate Brains
5.     The environment and the Python interface have compatible versions.
6.  

I did set

env_name = None

which seems to work for the OpenAiGym notebook, but not this one.

 

Using MLAgent Version 0.15.1
I'm not sure if maybe I'm doing something wrong but the code I'm trying to run is.

Code (CSharp):

1. engine_configuration_channel = EngineConfigurationChannel()
2. env = UnityEnvironment(file_name=env_name, side_channels = [engine_configuration_channel])
3. #env = UnityEnv(env_name, worker_id=0, use_visual=True, multiagent=True)
4. #Reset the environment
5. env.reset()
6.  
7. # Set the default brain to work with
8. group_name = env.get_agent_groups()[0]
9. group_spec = env.get_agent_group_spec(group_name)
10.  
11. # Set the time scale of the engine
12. engine_configuration_channel.set_configuration_parameters(time_scale = 3.0)

After running that, the code block stalls for a bit before giving me the following error.

Code (CSharp):

1. UnityTimeOutException: The Unity environment took too long to respond. Make sure that :
2.      The environment does not need user interaction to launch
3.      The Agents are linked to the appropriate Brains
4.      The environment and the Python interface have compatible versions.

.
I did try to just run Unity anyways, but with no luck. I'm new to working with MLAgent and python so I may be missing something simpe. I did set the env_name to None.

When you say "We deprecated the notebooks in our most recent release", do you mean you Jupyter Notebook will not be supported?