Do QWIIC VL53LX1 support Python on mac + firmata +Arduino ?

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I am using Arduino with a QWIIC VL531LX distance sensor. I want to use Python on a mac computer to control Arduino through Firmata. Does it look to me that the QWIIC VL5311LX library doesn’t support python on a mac? If not, could you provide a guideline on how to install it? Thanks!

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Here’s a python library https://pypi.org/project/VL53L1X/#files - as long as the rest of those are set up correctly (Mac has Python IDE/interpreter), it should work

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Thanks for TS-Rusell. I have not yet tried it. One more question, do this code works for QWIIC too? Or do we need to connect VL53LX1 with I2C? :slight_smile:

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Qwiic and I2C are the same thing.

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It is happy to know they are the same thing.

It is easy to confuse us from from the information of product SparkFun Distance Sensor Breakout VL53L1X (Qwiic). It say: The python package depends on the qwiic I2C driver: Qwiic_I2C_Py

So we may easily think there is another python package for non-qwiic I2C. Just for your reference. :smiley: