// Initialize the Color Sensor
var color = new serviceSPIKE.ColorSensor("E")

Methods

inner get_color() → {string}

ServiceDock_SPIKE.js, line 1965

Get the name of the detected color

Returns:

string -

'black','violet','blue','cyan','green','yellow','red','white'

inner get_reflected_light() → {number}

ServiceDock_SPIKE.js, line 1989

Retrieves the intensity of the reflected light.

Returns:

number -

The reflected light intensity. [0 to 100]

inner get_red() → {number}

ServiceDock_SPIKE.js, line 2016

Retrieves the red color intensity.

Returns:

number -

[0 to 1024]

inner get_green() → {number}

ServiceDock_SPIKE.js, line 2027

Retrieves the green color intensity.

Returns:

number -

[0 to 1024]

inner get_blue() → {number}

ServiceDock_SPIKE.js, line 2038

Retrieves the blue color intensity.

Returns:

number -

[0 to 1024]

inner wait_until_color(colorInput, callback)

ServiceDock_SPIKE.js, line 2050

Waits until the Color Sensor detects the specified color.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
colorInput	string	'black','violet','blue','cyan','green','yellow','red','white'
callback	function	callback function

inner wait_for_new_color(callback)

ServiceDock_SPIKE.js, line 2061

Execute callback when Color Sensor detects a new color. The first time this method is called, it returns immediately the detected color. After that, it waits until the Color Sensor detects a color that is different from the color that was detected the last time this method was used.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
callback	function	params: detected new color