Introduction¶

Library for the APDS9500 Gesture Sensor

Dependencies¶

This driver depends on:

Please ensure all dependencies are available on the CircuitPython filesystem. This is easily achieved by downloading the Adafruit library and driver bundle.

Installing from PyPI¶

On supported GNU/Linux systems like the Raspberry Pi, you can install the driver locally from PyPI. To install for current user:

pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-apds9500

To install system-wide (this may be required in some cases):

sudo pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-apds9500

To install in a virtual environment in your current project:

mkdir project-name && cd project-name
python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-apds9500

Usage Example¶

import time
import board
import busio
import adafruit_apds9500
from adafruit_apds9500 import Gesture

i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA)

apds = adafruit_apds9500.APDS9500(i2c)
while True:
    gesture_reading = apds.gestures
    if len(gesture_reading) == 0:
        continue
    for gesture in gesture_reading:
        print("\t", Gesture.string[gesture], "Gesture Detected")
    print("")
time.sleep(.1)

Contributing¶

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Code of Conduct before contributing to help this project stay welcoming.

Documentation¶

For information on building library documentation, please check out this guide.

Table of Contents¶

Examples

Simple test

API Reference