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Please note:
The IR Seeker board can be used with the EV3 Labview software using our custom blocks.
Once downloaded the blocks can be used like other ev3-g blocks. A very simple program to write the sensor value to the screen can be seen below:
There is no need to change the value 8 in the block.
The IR Seeker feature switches should be set to:

EV3 Python

Using EV3 Python:
from pybricks.iodevices import I2CDevice
ir_sensor = I2CDevice(Port.S4, 0x08)
#read two bytes, one contains direction, one contains strength
ball_sensor_data = ir_sensor.read(2,2)
ball_position = ball_sensor_data[0]
ball_sig_strength = ball_sensor_data[1]
The IR Seeker feature switches should be set to: