I2CGET(8) | System Manager's Manual | I2CGET(8) |
i2cget - read from I2C/SMBus chip registers
i2cget [-f] [-y] [-a] i2cbus
chip-address [data-address [mode]]
i2cget -V
i2cget is a small helper program to read registers visible through the I2C bus (or SMBus).
There are two required options to i2cget. i2cbus indicates the number or name of the I2C bus to be scanned. This number should correspond to one of the busses listed by i2cdetect -l. chip-address specifies the address of the chip on that bus, and is an integer between 0x03 and 0x77.
data-address specifies the address on that chip to read from, and is an integer between 0x00 and 0xFF. If omitted, the currently active register will be read (if that makes sense for the considered chip).
The mode parameter, if specified, is one of the letters b, w or c, corresponding to a read byte data, a read word data or a write byte/read byte transaction, respectively. A p can also be appended to the mode parameter to enable PEC. If the mode parameter is omitted, i2cget defaults to a read byte data transaction, unless data-address is also omitted, in which case the default (and only valid) transaction is a single read byte.
i2cget can be extremely dangerous if used improperly. I2C and SMBus are designed in such a way that an SMBus read transaction can be seen as a write transaction by certain chips. This is particularly true if setting mode to cp (write byte/read byte with PEC). Be extremely careful using this program.
Get the value of 8-bit register 0x11 of the I2C device at 7-bit address 0x2d on bus 1 (i2c-1), after user confirmation:
# i2cget 1 0x2d 0x11
Get the value of 16-bit register 0x00 of the I2C device at 7-bit address 0x48 on bus 1 (i2c-1), after user confirmation:
# i2cget 1 0x48 0x00 w
Set the internal pointer register of a 24C02 EEPROM at 7-bit address 0x50 on bus 9 (i2c-9) to 0x00, then read the first 2 bytes from that EEPROM:
# i2cset -y 9 0x50 0x00 ; i2cget -y 9 0x50 ; i2cget -y 9 0x50
This assumes that the device automatically increments its internal pointer register on every read, and supports read byte transactions (read without specifying the register address, "Receive Byte" in SMBus terminology.) Most EEPROM devices behave that way. Note that this is only safe as long as nobody else is accessing the I2C device at the same time. A safer approach would be to use a "Read Word" SMBus transaction instead, or an I2C Block Read transaction to read more than 2 bytes.
Set the internal pointer register of a 24C32 EEPROM at 7-bit address 0x53 on bus 9 (i2c-9) to 0x0000, then read the first 2 bytes from that EEPROM:
# i2cset -y 9 0x53 0x00 0x00 ; i2cget -y 9 0x53 ; i2cget -y 9 0x53
Jean Delvare
This manual page was strongly inspired from those written by David Z Maze for i2cset.
October 2017 |