mBot 2 does not respond to scripts from mBlock - Learn Coding app

#1

My kids just got two mBot 2. The included demo programs work fine, and we are trying to now control them with the iOS “mBlock - Learn Coding” app.

The app’s tutorial pairs with the devices and guides us through some simple activities, but the mBot2 never reacts. We get stuck when doing the Events tutorial which is triggered by the user pressing a button on the mBot. The program never gets notified that the button was pressed and the display on the bot just continues to show the same menu it showed when it finished booting.

How do I get the mBot to respond to the commands from the mBot app?

#2

If I exit out of the tutorial and goto the standard coding section, I’m able to add the CyberPi sprite to control the bot.

That’s not terribly obvious. Can you please update the tutorial section of the app to detect if the connected bot is compatible and give appropriate warning to the user (or better yet, make CyberPi work with the tuturial).

Also, it would be better if the Sprite Library made it more obvious that mBot2 users should use CyberPi…