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[kettch]

I've got an Adafruit RGB LCD Button Shield, and it uses I2C to talk to the LCD and buttons through an Mcp23017. Right now I'm able to poll the state of the buttons inside a while(true) loop. Is there a way to attach an interrupt or event of some kind to the mux pins? EDIT: I was thinking about this, and I guess I should explain what I'm trying to do. I'm displaying the temperature on the shield, but I'd also like to use the buttons to change options for the running program (this is a thermostat-type device). So, I need to poll the thermocouple (which is working fine if I poll it directly, or use a timer) and at the same time be able to react to button presses. Thanks

Edited by kettch, 08 September 2012 - 06:47 AM.

[CW2]

If I understand the device datasheet correctly, you should be able to connect its INTA, INTB outputs to Netduino pins, enable Interrupt-On-Change in GPINTENx register, then create an InterruptPort on Netduino and read the INTFx register to get the interrupt source (i.e. which button was pressed) in the event handler.

[MegaOhm]

I've got an Adafruit RGB LCD Button Shield, and it uses I2C to talk to the LCD and buttons through an Mcp23017. Right now I'm able to poll the state of the buttons inside a while(true) loop. Is there a way to attach an interrupt or event of some kind to the mux pins?

EDIT: I was thinking about this, and I guess I should explain what I'm trying to do. I'm displaying the temperature on the shield, but I'd also like to use the buttons to change options for the running program (this is a thermostat-type device). So, I need to poll the thermocouple (which is working fine if I poll it directly, or use a timer) and at the same time be able to react to button presses.

Thanks

I pursuing a similar project, were you able to get the shield to work as needed?