[SOLVED] I2C commands not being sent properly

Hello everyone, it's my first time posting so please be nice.

I'm working on a project where I have a small SBC (not a raspi nor a beaglebone, but the problem is my software so let's move on to that) and the program I've written is having trouble writing to the i2c interface.

I can open the i2c file descriptor, and I can read from it just fine. BUT when I write to it, it returns the correct number of written bytes, correctly sends the first byte, but the rest are all zeros. This problem stumped me until I connected my board to an oscilloscope.

It's sending the correct i2c address, and the correct register location, but the data is all zeros.
I can't seem to post images so what I'm seeing on my scope is: 0xD0 0x7E 0x00
What I should be seeing is 0xD0 0x7E 0xB6.

Below is my code. If someone can tell me where I've gone wrong I would greatly appreciate it.
*The calls to LE_INFO are just debug statements that show up in logs*

#include <linux/i2c-dev.h>


int main(){

	int i2c = open("/dev/i2c-4", O_RDWR);

	if(i2c < 0){
		LE_INFO("The i2c bus could not be opened, error: %d", i2c);
		exit(1);
	}else{
		LE_INFO("The i2c bus was opened.");
	}

	//you have the bus, now send the address of the device you want to communicate with.
	if((ioctl(i2c, I2C_SLAVE, 0x68)) < 0){
		LE_INFO("Could not acquire control of i2c bus");
		close(i2c);
		exit(1);
	}

	int location[] = {0,0};
	int res = 0;

	location[0] = 0x7E; //command register
	location[1] = 0xB6; //command

	LE_INFO("register location %d, command %d", location[0], location[1]);
	//setup bus to read a byte. 
	if((res = write(i2c, location, 2)) != 2){ //write the 
		LE_INFO("read register location was not written to i2c bus, %d bytes written",res);
	}

	close(i2c);

	exit(0);

}

Hi,

Your location array should be characters, "char", not int.

What you're doing is consistent with the I2c_dev library, here's a similar example showing SMBus as well as read/write operations: https://mjmwired.net/kernel/Document.../dev-interface, but nice work, what you have for code flow is fine, I think it's just the size of the array elements which is your problem, change it to bytes:

char location[2] = {0,0};

AHHHH it finally worked! Thank you!!