Custom I²C Device

Lots of devices communicate using the I²C protocol. If you want to integrate a device into ESPHome that uses this protocol you can pretty much use almost all Arduino-based code because the Wire library is also available in ESPHome.

See the other custom component guides for how to register components and make them publish values.

#include "esphome.h"

class MyCustomComponent : public Component {
 public:
  void setup() override {
    // Initialize the device here. Usually Wire.begin() will be called in here,
    // though that call is unnecessary if you have an 'i2c:' entry in your config

    Wire.begin();
  }
  void loop() override {
    // Example: write the value 0x42 to register 0x78 of device with address 0x21
    Wire.beginTransmission(0x21);
    Wire.write(0x78);
    Wire.write(0x42);
    Wire.endTransmission();
  }
};

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