Using Ambient Light Sensor (VEML6030) with SparkFun weather:bit - micro:bit Carrier Board (Qwiic)

I am trying to add the Ambient Light Sensor to my Weather:bit Microclimate station for better light sensitivity. I am getting power to the sensor, but my AMB light reading always shows zero. Here is my program Micro:climate Station Any help would be appreciated.

I don’t have much exp with microbit code, but maybe that ‘false’ flag for ‘repeated’ might need to be set to ‘true’ so it updates its values? (or is that just to init the i2c address?)

Do you need to load libraries/extensions in the background?