MCP23017-Encoders-No-Interrupts.ino

MCP23017-Encoders-No-Interrupts

This example demonstrates the use of MCP23017 I²C port expanders with rotary encoders.

Boards: 🛈

AVR, AVR USB, Nano Every, Nano 33 IoT, Nano 33 BLE, UNO R4, Pi Pico, Due, Teensy 3.x, ESP8266, ESP32

Connections

• SDA: MCP23017 SDA
• SCL: MCP23017 SCL
• 12: MCP23017 INTA or INTB

Connect up to 8 encoders to the MCP23017's GPIO pins: the first encoder connects to GPIO A0 and A1, the second encoder connects to GPIO A2 and A3, ..., the eighth encoder connects to GPIO B6 and B7.
Connect the "common" pins of the encoders to ground.
The built-in pull-up resistors of the MCP23017 will be enabled.

Make sure that the reset and address pins are all configured correctly (reset to Vcc; A0, A1 and A2 to ground).

If you need more than one MCP23017 with encoders, you can connect their interrupt pins together. This does result in higher latency, because on average, half of the total number of MCP23017s have to be polled, which is relatively slow, and might lead to missed pulses when using a large number of encoders.

Behavior

When the position of one of the encoders changes, it is printed to the Serial monitor.

Cautions

The interrupt pin of the MCP23017 doesn't trigger a hardware interrupt on the Arduino. It's used only to determine whether the Arduino should read the GPIO registers from the MCP23017.
If the update function isn't called often enough, you will miss encoder pulses, and the position will be incorrect.
It's very important to keep your main loop free from any code that blocks for more than a couple of hundreds of microseconds.

Written by PieterP, 2020-04-06
https://github.com/tttapa/Arduino-Helpers

 
#include <Wire.h>
 
#include <Arduino_Helpers.h>
 
#include <AH/Hardware/MCP23017Encoders.hpp>
#include <AH/PrintStream/PrintStream.hpp>
 
using WireType = decltype(Wire);     // The type of I²C driver to use
using EncoderPositionType = int32_t; // The type for saving encoder positions
using MCPEncoderType = MCP23017Encoders<WireType, EncoderPositionType>;
 
MCPEncoderType enc {Wire, 0x0, 12};
//                  │     │    └─ Interrupt pin
//                  │     └────── Address offset
//                  └──────────── I²C interface
 
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  Wire.begin(); // Must be called before enc.begin()
  Wire.setClock(800000);
  enc.begin(); // Initialize the MCP23017
}
 
void loop() {
  enc.update(); // Read the state of the encoders and update the positions
 
  // Save the previous positions
  static EncoderPositionType prevPositions[8] {};
  // Check if an encoder position changed and print it
  for (uint8_t i = 0; i < 8; ++i) {
    if (enc.read(i) != prevPositions[i]) {
      Serial << '[' << i << "] " << enc.read(i) << endl;
      prevPositions[i] = enc.read(i);
    }
  }
}