PIC18F I2C Communication with Arduino

[picmilan]

Hello all,

I read all the I2C related posts but still can't fully understand how to send dada from PIC18F to an Arduino.

I set the address of arduino to 0x26 and try to do following in PicBasic but I don't get any data:

TRISC.0 = 0
TRISB = 000000

LED VAR PORTC.0   ' Assign name "LED" to PORTC.0
SCL VAR PORTB.3    ' Clock pin
SDA VAR PORTB.1    ' Data pin

ADDR VAR WORD

ADDR = $26 ' I2C address

mainloop:
   HIGH LED        ' Turn on LED connected to PORTB.0
   Pause 1000       ' Delay for 1 seconds
   
   I2CWrite SDA,SCL,ADDR,[0]
   
   LOW LED          ' Turn off LED connected to PORTB.0
   Pause 1000       ' Delay for 1 seconds
   Goto mainloop   ' Go back to loop and blink LED forever

Any idea?

[Scampy]

Im no expert, but don't you have to send data. All the examples I've seen, and use send and receive a variable after the address, eg to send the value of a word variable

I2CWRITE SDApin,SCLpin,i2cWriteAddress,i2cControl,[variable.lowbyte,variable.highbyte]

I can't see that in your code

Also I think you need to set one device as a slave and another as master, so maybe posting your arduino code could also help those more qualified to comment to asses whats going on

[HenrikOlsson]

The data being sent is the value 0, that looks alright to me though I've literally never used I2CWrite.
Check the pins you're using for multiplexed functions, specifically analog such as ADC and comparators and make sure the pins are set to digital.

Then I'd check the pins with a scope or logic analyzer to verify if data is actually coming out or not - if you don't KNOW, for sure, that the Arduino code is working.

/Henrik.

[Dave]

I've literally never used I2CWrite.
Really Henrick? Wow, I use it all the time to write to serial eeprom's, a/d's and i/o expanders, etc. You should really design more hardware..

[Scampy]

Can you inform us which 18F pic you are using?

Most of the 18F PICs (28 pin and 40 pin) have the hardware I2C pins on PORT C not PORTB. Whilst I'm sure PBP can define any pins, it might be "better" to use the actual pins associated with the hardware module on the PIC, eg

SCLpin             var PORTC.3          'clk
SDApin             var PORTC.4          'data

[picmilan]

I am using PIC18F2450 which doesn't have hardware I2C pins.Isn't I2CWRITE just a software solution and not using actual hardware?

here is arduino code:

#include <Wire.h>

void setup() {
  Wire.begin(0x26);                // join i2c bus with address
  Wire.onReceive(receiveEvent); 
  Serial.begin(9600);          
  
}

void loop() {
 delay(1000);

}


void receiveEvent(int howMany) {

  while (1 < Wire.available()) { 
    char c = Wire.read(); 
    Serial.print(c);    
  }
  int x = Wire.read();   
  Serial.println(x);
}