get a sensor digital input to work on a pickit 2 16f690 lpc

[mister_e]

Also with the digital sensor program, the light turns on when the state changes, but won't shut off unless i push the button on the lpc. Why? Thanks again. This is the code:

In your code, your TRISC line is not right, you must set some inputs there.... as it is right now, there's only OUTPUT. Change it to

      ' 
      '  76543210
TRISC = %10000000
      ' -1-------- PORTB.7 = INPUT
      ' --0000000- PORTB<6:0> = OUTPUT

And then your main loop may looks like...

Start:
        IF PORTC.7 = 1 THEN
                PORTC.0 = 1
                ELSE
                        PORTC.0 = 0
                ENDIF
        PAUSE 1000
        GOTO Start

OR.. WAY easier

Start:
        PORTC.0 = PORTC.7
        PAUSE 1000
        GOTO Start

In your code, you enable the Pull up on PORTA, there's no internal pull-up available for PORTC, so I hope you have one