[solved] Particle Photon not receiving i2c transmission

Troubleshooting
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@kaydend, stereo!! Can you confirm that those are 3.3K ohm resistors? Do you have a picture of your whole setup?

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@peekay123 currently they are 2.2k resistors because someone suggested I try them earlier. I can change them to 3.3k if you think it will make a difference. Iā€™ll post a picture of my whole setup

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When things donā€™t go well for me (after Mr. Pullup spanks me) I look at the power.

how much power do you have on that rig?

the photon and the ESP can each draw over 250mA at startup

perhaps you can try to 1) put a big cap on the power rail or 2) bump the power to the rig?

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@BulldogLowell Iā€™m kinda new to his whole electronics thing, so like what would be a good size cap for this? Also, it is starting up just fine but the I2C thing just ainā€™t working

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@kaydend, do you have a common ground between the Photon and esp?

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Yes, the yellow pin in connected to the Photons GND and the ESPs GND

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:star: So the issue is that you are trying to use Particle.publish in the Slaveā€™s onReceive handler. And IIRC the interrupts are disabled after that handler is called, so your Photon will lock up if you try to publish within the handler. If you comment out that line of code things will probably work.

And other thoughts I had firstā€¦ but probably wonā€™t matter now.

Hi @kaydend, thanks for taking the time to rewire things. I wonder if the slave address is shifted? Can you change the Master code to use Slave address 0, then update the Slave to use 0 as well. Then no shift in address will cause an issue if there is one. Some devices interpret the numbers you use as 7-bit addresses and other may use 8-bit.

Also Iā€™d like to see if you can run the exact example in the Docs and see if you have better luck with that, since I know your Arduino doesnā€™t have Particle.publish() :slight_smile:

#define SLAVE
// #define MASTER

#ifdef MASTER
void setup() {
  Wire.begin();              // join i2c bus as master
}

byte x = 0;

void loop() {
  Wire.beginTransmission(0); // transmit to slave device #0
  Wire.write(x);             // sends one byte
  Wire.endTransmission();    // stop transmitting

  x++;
  delay(1000);
}
#endif

#ifdef SLAVE
void receiveEvent(int howMany) {
  while(1 < Wire.available()) { // loop through all but the last
    char c = Wire.read();       // receive byte as a character
    Serial.print(c);            // print the character
  }
  int x = Wire.read();          // receive byte as an integer
  Serial.println(x);            // print the integer
}

void setup() {
  Wire.begin(0);                // join i2c bus with address #0
  Wire.onReceive(receiveEvent); // register event
  Serial.begin(9600);           // start serial for output
}

void loop() {
  delay(100);
}
#endif
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Yep, that was it. I donā€™t how to thank you, This has been stressing me out for a week. I just got my Photon 3 ish weeks ago and so far I have had the best experience with it out of all my IOT type devices. Keep up the good work

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Also maybe thatā€™s should be put on docs

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Thanks for the reminder! Just added these notes to the onReceive/onRequest handlers:

Note: This handler will lock up the device if System calls such as Particle.publish() are made within, due to interrupts being disabled for atomic operations during this handler. Do not overload this handler with extra function calls other than what is immediately required to receive/send I2C data. Post process outside of this handler.

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