code-color-sensor-only.py

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Eric Z. Ayers
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Creative Commons Zero 1.0

"""Collect training data from a color sensor and publish it to Adafruit IO """

import board
import busio
import time

import adafruit_tcs34725


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# *EDIT*
# Set configurable values below
# Feed name for Adafruit IO

# milliseconds to gather color data
sensor_integration_time = 150

# manually override the color sensor gain
sensor_gain = 4

# Collect this many samples each time we prompt the user
num_samples = 5

#
# End of editable config values
##################

# Create sensor object, communicating over the board's default I2C bus
i2c = busio.I2C(board.GP1, board.GP0)  # uses first I2C SCA/SCL pair on pico
sensor = adafruit_tcs34725.TCS34725(i2c)

# Change sensor gain to 1, 4, 16, or 60
sensor.gain = sensor_gain
# Change sensor integration time to values between 2.4 and 614.4 milliseconds
sensor.integration_time = sensor_integration_time

while True:
    time.sleep(1)
    print("Temperature: %d" % sensor.color_temperature)
    print(
        "r: %d, g: %d, b: %d"
        % (
            sensor.color_rgb_bytes[0],
            sensor.color_rgb_bytes[1],
            sensor.color_rgb_bytes[2],
        )
    )
    print("Lux: %d" % sensor.lux)