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  • Member #1711220 / about 2 years ago / 1

    My dear friend i have a problem with your examples for this sensor. i use a Sparkfun ESP32 thing plus and this veml6030 and Arduino 1.8.19 and everytime for all your examples i recieved when i try to upload this error "'int time' redeclared as different kind of symbol" for the line: "int time = 100;" What can i do? This is all the error message received:

    Example1_Read_Ambient_Basics:38:5: error: 'int time' redeclared as different kind of symbol int time = 100; ^ In file included from C:\Users\Niculescu Robert\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp32\hardware\esp32\1.0.6/tools/sdk/include/newlib/stdio.h:29:0, from C:\Users\Niculescu Robert\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp32\hardware\esp32\1.0.6\cores\esp32/Arduino.h:27, from sketch\Example1_Read_Ambient_Basics.ino.cpp:1: C:\Users\Niculescu Robert\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp32\hardware\esp32\1.0.6/tools/sdk/include/newlib/time.h:53:11: note: previous declaration 'time_t time(time_t)' time_t _EXFUN(time, (time_t *_timer)); ^ C:\Users\NICULE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino_modified_sketch_970837\Example1_Read_Ambient_Basics.ino: In function 'void setup()': Example1_Read_Ambient_Basics:55:26: error: invalid conversion from 'time_t ()(time_t) {aka long int ()(long int*)}' to 'uint16_t {aka short unsigned int}' [-fpermissive] light.setIntegTime(time); ^ In file included from C:\Users\NICULE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino_modified_sketch_970837\Example1_Read_Ambient_Basics.ino:24:0: C:\Users\Niculescu Robert\Documents\Arduino\libraries\SparkFun_Ambient_Light_Sensor_Arduino_Library-1.0.3\src/SparkFun_VEML6030_Ambient_Light_Sensor.h:95:10: note: initializing argument 1 of 'void SparkFun_Ambient_Light::setIntegTime(uint16_t)' void setIntegTime(uint16_t time); ^ exit status 1 'int time' redeclared as different kind of symbol


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