That telephone wire actually carries electrons just as fast as a USB C cable of that length. The protocol running on that wire is pretty tight.
Color balancing for the lighting condition has been something that all robot vision systems need to do. There is lots of difference between sunlight, sodium vapor and mercury vapor lights that you find in gym/cafeteria settings.
Can you say some more about the issues you had with the software and what you would like to be able to do? People that can make changes to the software lurk on this board. So positive suggestions may appear in future releases. Thats what GABaxter was hinting at.
@Laine. Take a look at this thread, it has a link farther down to some code that you might find useful. You might also want to search the forum, there are some good threads about the sensor