I2C Set and read individual pins

Hey,

I have a MCP23017 io expander that runs through i2c. It has two banks and I am able to read an entire bank or set and entire bank using a bit combination but is it possible to set individual pins on the MCP23017. For example, if I wanted to just read the state or write to the state of the 3rd pin on bank B of the MCP23017, how would I go about doing that?

Thanks

how would I go about doing that?

Read the bank. Read or change the bit of interest. Write the bank.

Use bitRead and bitSet/bitWrite to read and write the individual bits.

Hi Alterach,

There is a Adafruit library for the MCP23017 that allows to read, write pins individually.
You can find an example, including code for an Arduino Uno at the bottom of this post:
http://christophhartel.com/arduino-io-expander-with-mcp23017-and-74hc4051/

Christoph