New LiquidCrystal Library - SoftI2C

[Humancell]

Hello,

I'm using the "New LiquidCrystal" Library from here:  https://bitbucket.org/fmalpartida/new-liquidcrystal/wiki/Home

Everything is working great, and now I want to move the I2C to different pins.  I have found references that this new LiquidCrystal library supports SoftI2C, but I'm not finding examples on how to do this.

Instantiating the LiquidCrystal_I2C appears to assume pins 4 and 5, so how do I create the display object and indicate the alternate pins I want the SoftI2C to use?

Anyone have some sample code or a link to details on this?


Thanks!

[Humancell]

An update ... but I'm still not there ...

I found that I use the following library:  LiquidCrystal_SI2C ... and this library exists and is compiling.

To determine the pins, it says to edit the SI2CIO.cpp file and specify the pins and ports.

I've tried:

Analog Pins 0/1:

#define SDA_PIN 0
#define SDA_PORT PORTC
#define SCL_PIN 1
#define SCL_PORT PORTC

Analog Pins 2/3:

#define SDA_PIN 2
#define SDA_PORT PORTC
#define SCL_PIN 3
#define SCL_PORT PORTC

Digital Pins 10/11:

#define SDA_PIN 2
#define SDA_PORT PORTB
#define SCL_PIN 3
#define SCL_PORT PORTB

And I can get nothing to work.

I have the display working with the standard Analog pins 4/5, but even trying those with the "SoftI2C" does not work.

Anyone have experience with this?

[Humancell]

I'll post my resolution here for anyone doing their own searching.

When I edited the SI2CIO.cpp file to change the settings, it turns out that the IDE fails to detect the change in the library and force a re-complie/re-build.  :-/

I had to go into the cache/build temp directory each time and delete all of the files to force the LiquidCrystal_SI2C to be rebuilt each time I edited the settings.

Once I did that I was able to get it working, and get the examples to work!