{"id":3602,"date":"2019-04-19T21:41:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T04:41:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"3602","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3602","title":{"rendered":"My Vernier sensor does not seem to work with my EV3 LEGO Robot. How do I troubleshoot this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following are a series of troubleshooting steps that should help you find the issue:<br \/>\n1. Check to verify that your EV3 is on. Periodically, the EV3 will shut down when not in use for a length of time.<br \/>\n2. Check that the port number into which you connected your Vernier Sensor Adapter matches the port number in your program.<br \/>\n3. Build and run a simple program that sends live readings from the sensor to the screen of the EV3.<br \/>\n4. Swap out sensors.<br \/>\n5. Try different ports (make sure you change your program and the port you are connected to).<br \/>\n6. Try a LEGO\u00ae sensor.<br \/>\n7. Restart both the MINDSTORMS\u00ae software and your EV3 brick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/product\/lego-mindstorms-education-ev3-core-set-with-charger\/\">LEGO<sup>&reg;<\/sup> MINDSTORMS<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Education EV3 Core Set with Charger<\/a> (<nobr>LEGO-EV3-CORE<\/nobr>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/product\/nxt-sensor-adapter\/\">NXT Sensor Adapter<\/a> (<nobr>BTA-NXT<\/nobr>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/product\/vernier-engineering-projects-with-lego-mindstorms-education-ev3-electronic-version\/\"><i>Vernier Engineering Projects with LEGO&reg; MINDSTORMS&reg; Education EV3<\/i><\/a> (<nobr>EP-EV3-E<\/nobr>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/til\/3339\/\">LEGO\u00ae Mindstorms\u00ae EV3 Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are a series of troubleshooting steps that should help you find the issue: 1. Check to verify that your EV3 is on. Periodically,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2613,3672,2614,3142],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bta-nxt","tag-ev3","tag-lego","tag-mindstorms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}