Gesture / distance sensor not functional

[TheKitty]

Debra (@geekmomprojects on Twitter) has been trying to use the Light + Gesture + Proximity: APDS9960 and it has been either returning no value (distance) or irregular values (gesture). The underlying library is quite old (9/2017) and may not be entirely functional. I'll post this on that library too.

[TheKitty]

Filed adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_APDS9960#16

[geekmomprojects]

When running the following sample code from the adafruit_clue library documentation to retrieve data from the gesture sensor:

from adafruit_clue import clue

while True:
    print("Gesture: {}".format(clue.gesture))
    print("Proximity: {}".format(clue.proximity))

I get results for proximity but almost no nonzero results for gesture. To get any nonzero gesture readings at all, the gestures need to be very close (millimeters) away from the sensor.

[ladyada]

hi please try running the example in this repo
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_APDS9960
as the issue isn't the CLUE library but the APDS library :)

[ladyada]

closing this issue - please continue all discussion
adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_APDS9960#16
so that we have one thread to follow - thank you :)