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I2C and SPI

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WLED MM has implemented a more intuitive way of dealing with i2c and spi pins accross usermods. Main changes:

  • Do not reset ui variables if something is wrong (e.g. 4ld/type, enabled)
  • Use errorMessage instead and show errormessage in settings ui
  • If global pins are -1/undefined, then there is no initialization of spi/i2c in usermods using global pins
  • HW_PIN_* variables are used in platformio to specify defaults for global pins, HW_PIN variables not used in usermods, there only global pin variabes are used
  • HW_PIN_DATASPI and HW_PIN_MOSISPI both existed but is one pin, merged to HW_PIN_MOSISPI as MOSI and MISO is both data
  • i2c_scl (etc) variables are used in usermods without if -1 then HW_PIN check, i2c_scl (etc) most be proper initialized before it can be used.
  • No hijacking of global vars (giving them a value) in usermods
  • Don't register pins if usermod is not enabled

Pin dropdowns

ESP32 classic ESP32 GPIO  ESP32-S3 ESP32-S3 GPIO  ESP32-S2 ESP32-S2 GPIO

ESP32-C3 ESP32-C3 GPIO  ESP8266 ESP8266 GPIO

Nr of pins and functionality is depending on the board chosen (esp8266, esp32, esp32-c2, esp32-c3, esps32-s3)

  • First option is undefined or use global (global pin)
  • 🔴 pin used by other usermod / global pins, cannot be selected
  • 🟠 read only pin: will be disabled for signals which write
  • 🟣 reserved pin: cannot be selected
  • ⍼ pin defined by board (e.g. default I2C on esp32 is 21/22)
  • ⎌ pin defined by bin / platformio entry

Pin allocation

  • 8266: default I2C pins for most esp8266 variants are SDA=4 and SCL=5 (and one i2c instance only). So you can have 0 or 1 I2C bus.
  • esp32: has two "I2C hardware units" that can attach to any pin. So you could have 0 or 1, or 2 I2C buses.
  • currently WLED only uses "i2c unit 0" on esp32. So in reality you can have 0 or 1 I2C bus.
  • WLED does not support "software I2C" on esp32 - that's a common misunderstanding because people see they can freely chose pins on esp32.
  • once the I2C bus pins are set, all usermods have to use these pins for I2C. Changing I2C pins requires a reboot.

  • four-line-display is an exception, because the driver library has its own "software I2C" - slow, but can always be used with any availeable pin.

  • on both esp32 and 8266, you can decide to not use I2C, and use pins for something else. For example (on 8266), attach some buttons or rotary encoder to gpio 4+5.

  • similar for SPI - if you want SPI, the pins are fixed on 8266. If you don't need SPI, the pins can be used for something else.
  • on esp32 its a bit more complicated even, because the fastest SPI modes are only possible on certains pins. But still if people don't want SPI, the pins can be used for something different.

Serial pin overview

After booting WLED MM an overview of allocated pins and possible conflicts is send to Serial output:

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Fork specific info

WLED SR

Pin drop downs not supported

WLED AC

Pin drop downs not supported