VCS: Light Sensor

**fantasian101** · May 18, 2019, 12:21am

Hi yall!

I was making some code for this year and saw that light sensors aren’t in VCS. Is there a way to program with the light sensor even though its not in the ‘three wired’ section in VCS?

**3589D** · May 15, 2019, 9:38pm

They are in the c++ pro

**fantasian101** · May 15, 2019, 9:49pm

Thank you! I will try to learn pro so i can use them then

**matthewdenny** · May 17, 2019, 8:09pm

You can keep using VCS (not Pro) if you like. Just tell it there is a different analog sensor in that port (like a potentiometer) and read the values as if you were getting them from the potentiometer. It will work just fine.

**DarkMakesRobots** · May 18, 2019, 6:30pm

You might want to switch to VexCode. VCS has a very large list of problems, and, while VexCode isn’t perfect, it uses a more updated but backwards compatible API, has true multi-file support, is a dark theme, lets you ctrl+f, and lets you ctrl+s.

**3589D** · May 20, 2019, 11:39pm

I tried for my marble sorter and gave up

**fantasian101** · May 21, 2019, 12:26am

Thank you! that sounds like a good option. I will look into it.