Serial Comunication Vex5

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Hi all,

I’m trying to figure out serial communication with the V5. I aim to develop code that interprets serial communication using Python for controlling the VEX motor and to receive signals from the V5 brain, allowing me to implement control strategies. I found a video on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xardjeuyUcE) of someone doing exactly what I’m aiming to accomplish. Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be done?

I was able to program the VEX brain using the VSCode extension. However, I couldn’t find proper documentation. I discovered the VEX 5 Python API (VEX V5 Python API: Main Page), but when I try to program my VEX brain using the classes, I found that the program does not recognize the serial class from the API. Any help in figuring out how to make this project work would be greatly appreciated.

Best,
RobotGentlemen

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The API you found is not the VEXcode API, while it’s similar, it was for a product called RobotMesh studio, a now discontinued and obsolete alternative programming environment.

See this topic, serial comms from python was discussed recently. EXP has pretty much the same APis as V5.

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