After this the clock starts and each data bit is transferred during each clock pulse. The start condition occurs when data line drops low while the clock line is still high.

Let’s take even closer look at these events. Right after the addressing sequences follows the data sequences as many until the data is completely sent and it ends with a special stop condition. After the first Acknowledge bit in most cases comes another addressing sequence but this time for the internal registers of the slave device. After each 8 bits sequence follows a bit called Acknowledge. So after a special start condition occurs comes the first 8 bits sequence which indicates the address of the slave to which the data is being sent. In the setup, the LCD is initiated with lcd.init() and the backlight is turned on with lcd.backlight().The data signal is transferred in sequences of 8 bits. Connect to LCD via I2C, default address 0x27 (A0-A2 not jumpered) You will need to change ‘lcd’ to the new name in the rest of the sketch. You can give it a different name if you want like ‘menu_display’. Note that we have called the display ‘lcd’.

When using a 20×4 LCD, change this line to LiquidCrystal_I2C(0x27,20,4) This is where you will need to change the default address to the address you found earlier if it happens to be different. The next step is to create an LCD object with the LiquidCrystal_I2C class and specify the address and dimensions.įor this, we use the function LiquidCrystal_I2C(address, columns, rows).

#include // Library for I2C communication The other library imports wire.h automatically. *When using the latest version of the LiquidCrystal_I2C library it is no longer needed to include the wire.h library in your sketch. In the rest of this tutorial, I will cover more of the built-in functions of this library. As mentioned earlier we need both the wire.h* and the LiquidCrystal_I2C library. First, the required libraries are included.

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