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Platform agnostic driver for the PCF8574, PCF8574A and PCF8575 I/O expanders written in Rust using embedded-hal

Rust PCF857x I/O Expanders Driver

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This is a platform agnostic Rust driver for the PCF8574, PCF8574A and PCF8575 I2C I/O expanders,
based on the embedded-hal traits.

This driver allows you to:

  • Set all the outputs to 0 or 1 at once. See set().
  • Read selected inputs. See get().
  • Set all the outputs repeatedly looping through an array. See write_array().
  • Read selected inputs repeatedly filling up an array. See read_array().
  • Split the device into individual input/output pins. See split().

The devices

The devices consist of 8 or 16 quasi-bidirectional ports, I²C-bus interface, three
hardware address inputs and interrupt output. The quasi-bidirectional port can be
independently assigned as an input to monitor interrupt status or keypads, or as an
output to activate indicator devices such as LEDs.

The active LOW open-drain interrupt output (INT) can be connected to the interrupt logic
of the microcontroller and is activated when any input state differs from its corresponding
input port register state.

Datasheets:

Usage

Please find additional examples using hardware in this repository: driver-examples

use linux_embedded_hal::I2cdev;
use pcf857x::{Pcf8574, PinFlag, SlaveAddr};

fn main() {
    let dev = I2cdev::new("/dev/i2c-1").unwrap();
    let address = SlaveAddr::default();
    let mut expander = Pcf8574::new(dev, address);
    let output_pin_status = 0b1010_1010;
    expander.set(output_pin_status).unwrap();

    let pins_to_be_read = PinFlag::P0 | PinFlag::P7;
    let status = expander.get(pins_to_be_read).unwrap();

    println!("Input pin status: {}", status);
}

Support

For questions, issues, feature requests, and other changes, please file an
issue in the github project.

Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV)

This crate is guaranteed to compile on stable Rust 1.62 and up. It might
compile with older versions but that may change in any new patch release.

License

Licensed under either of

at your option.

Contributing

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall
be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Languages

Rust100.0%

Contributors

Latest Release

v0.5.0April 4, 2025
Apache License 2.0
Created August 19, 2018
Updated February 23, 2026
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