Gesture Sensor Not Working?

[billioncash]

Hello,

I'm trying to use the gesture sensor and when I run the example code:

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from adafruit_clue import clue

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

I can only get a 0 value to return.

I'm pretty new to the Clue in general, so any help or pointing in the right direction is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[billioncash]

I tested this code on my clue:

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from board import SCL, SDA
import busio
from adafruit_apds9960.apds9960 import APDS9960

i2c = busio.I2C(SCL, SDA)

apds = APDS9960(i2c)
apds.enable_proximity = True
apds.enable_gesture = True

# Uncomment and set the rotation if depending on how your sensor is mounted.
# apds.rotation = 270 # 270 for CLUE

while True:
    gesture = apds.gesture()

    if gesture == 0x01:
        print("up")
    elif gesture == 0x02:
        print("down")
    elif gesture == 0x03:
        print("left")
    elif gesture == 0x04:
        print("right")

and this code does work. I'm pretty confused about why the first method only produces 0, while the next method worked.

[billioncash]

Even when I run the gesture sensor code:

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Kattni Rembor, written for Adafruit Industries
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense
from adafruit_clue import clue

clue.sea_level_pressure = 1020

clue_data = clue.simple_text_display(title="CLUE Sensor Data!", title_scale=2)

while True:
    clue_data[0].text = "Acceleration: {:.2f} {:.2f} {:.2f} m/s^2".format(
        *clue.acceleration
    )
    clue_data[1].text = "Gyro: {:.2f} {:.2f} {:.2f} dps".format(*clue.gyro)
    clue_data[2].text = "Magnetic: {:.3f} {:.3f} {:.3f} uTesla".format(*clue.magnetic)
    clue_data[3].text = "Pressure: {:.3f} hPa".format(clue.pressure)
    clue_data[4].text = "Altitude: {:.1f} m".format(clue.altitude)
    clue_data[5].text = "Temperature: {:.1f} C".format(clue.temperature)
    clue_data[6].text = "Humidity: {:.1f} %".format(clue.humidity)
    clue_data[7].text = "Proximity: {}".format(clue.proximity)
    clue_data[8].text = "Gesture: {}".format(clue.gesture)
    clue_data[9].text = "Color: R: {} G: {} B: {} C: {}".format(*clue.color)
    clue_data[10].text = "Button A: {}".format(clue.button_a)
    clue_data[11].text = "Button B: {}".format(clue.button_b)
    clue_data[12].text = "Touch 0: {}".format(clue.touch_0)
    clue_data[13].text = "Touch 1: {}".format(clue.touch_1)
    clue_data[14].text = "Touch 2: {}".format(clue.touch_2)
    clue_data.show()

The Gesture returns 0 or no gesture detected 90% of the time.

[mikeysklar]

Hello billioncash,

Could you try the simpletest.py from the APDS9960 repo:

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Ci ... pletest.py

Please make sure you are running the latest Circuit Python and the CP library when running this.

https://circuitpython.org/board/clue_nrf52840_express/

I did see the APD sensor being misaligned by 90 degrees in a February github issue. The issue was closed in May.

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Ci ... /issues/16

The gesture sensor is not great. It requires a learning curve involving things like moving slowly etc. I'm closing this issue as the initial report is not something that can be resolved - it is how the sensor works. I will be creating a new issue to add rotation to this library to be able to implement in the CLUE library to handle the sensor rotation.