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EEPROM Get

The microcontroller on the Arduino and Genuino boards have 512 bytes of EEPROM: memory whose values are kept when the board is turned off (like a tiny hard drive).

The purpose of this example is to show how the put and get methods provide a different behaviour than write and read, that work on single bytes. Getting different variables from EEPROM retrieve a number of bytes that is related to the variable datatype.

Hardware Required

  • Arduino or Genuino Board

Circuit

There is no circuit for this example.

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Schematics

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Code

/***
    eeprom_get example.

    This shows how to use the EEPROM.get() method.

    To pre-set the EEPROM data, run the example sketch eeprom_put.
    This sketch will run without it, however, the values shown
    will be shown from what ever is already on the EEPROM.

    This may cause the serial object to print out a large string
    of garbage if there is no null character inside one of the strings
    loaded.

    Written by Christopher Andrews 2015
    Released under MIT licence.
***/

#include <EEPROM.h>

void setup() {

  float f = 0.00f;   //Variable to store data read from EEPROM.
  int eeAddress = 0; //EEPROM address to start reading from

  Serial.begin(9600);
  while (!Serial) {
    ; // wait for serial port to connect. Needed for native USB port only
  }
  Serial.print("Read float from EEPROM: ");

  //Get the float data from the EEPROM at position 'eeAddress'
  EEPROM.get(eeAddress, f);
  Serial.println(f, 3);    //This may print 'ovf, nan' if the data inside the EEPROM is not a valid float.

  /***
    As get also returns a reference to 'f', you can use it inline.
    E.g: Serial.print( EEPROM.get( eeAddress, f ) );
  ***/

  /***
    Get can be used with custom structures too.
    I have separated this into an extra function.
  ***/

  secondTest(); //Run the next test.
}

struct MyObject {
  float field1;
  byte field2;
  char name[10];
};

void secondTest() {
  int eeAddress = sizeof(float); //Move address to the next byte after float 'f'.

  MyObject customVar; //Variable to store custom object read from EEPROM.
  EEPROM.get(eeAddress, customVar);

  Serial.println("Read custom object from EEPROM: ");
  Serial.println(customVar.field1);
  Serial.println(customVar.field2);
  Serial.println(customVar.name);
}

void loop() {
  /* Empty loop */
}
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See also

  • EEPROM.get()
  • EEPROM library reference
  • EEPROM Clear - Fills the content of the EEPROM memory with “0”.
  • EEPROM Read – Reads values stored into EEPROM and prints them on Serial.
  • EEPROM Write – Stores values read from A0 into EEPROM.
  • EEPROM Crc – Calculates the CRC of EEPROM contents as if it was an array.
  • EEPROM Iteration – Programming examples on how to go through the EEPROM memory locations.
  • EEPROM Put – Put values in EEPROM using variable semantics (differs from EEPROM.write() ).
  • EEPROM Update – Stores values read from A0 into EEPROM, writing the value only if different, to increase EEPROM life.


Last revision 2018/05/17 by SM