Support of HiTechnic Color Sensor V2 in pybricks-micropython

[dianabarrett]

Hi!

EDIT: my sensor is HiTechnic Color Sensor V2

I'm having problems with using NXT Color Sensor V2 with pybricks.
I've seen different discussions around this, but none of the solutions seem to work for me.

I have an NXT Color Sensor V2 connected to S1 of the EV3 brick.
Here is the code I have:

#!/usr/bin/env pybricks-micropython
from pybricks.nxtdevices import ColorSensor
from pybricks.parameters import Port

color_sensor = ColorSensor(Port.S1)

When I run this code on my EV3 brick, it just hangs, I have to stop the program manually.
If I put any additional code after the line of color_sensor declaration, nothing gets executed.

Also, as you can assume that if I write something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env pybricks-micropython
from pybricks.nxtdevices import ColorSensor
from pybricks.parameters import Port

color_sensor = ColorSensor(Port.S1)
color_sensor._mode('RGB-RAW')

The last line of code color_sensor._mode('RGB-RAW') is not being executed at all.

The Question:
What would be the solution? How can I make the NXT Color Sensor V2 work within pybricks-micropython?

P.S. I've seen this comment #102 (comment) by @dlech, but I don't understand how I can make this work for my case, that it seems like color_sensor object isn't being created.

[laurensvalk]

The NXT color sensor class used in the script above is for the NXT color sensor that comes in the NXT set (https://docs.pybricks.com/en/latest/nxtdevices.html#nxt-color-sensor).

Could it be that you are using the HiTechnic Color Sensor V2 instead? Then you can use this class and its examples:
https://docs.pybricks.com/en/latest/iodevices/ev3devsensor.html

[dianabarrett]

Yes!! That was the case, thank you so much!!

[laurensvalk]

Awesome! You may need to tweak the examples a bit depending on what you need, but that page and the links provided therein might be enough to get started.

Just let us know if you need any help.