16x2 LCD Error accessing 0x20

[jsutherl]

I just built and installed a new Adafruit 16x2 LCD Pi Plate. The extender chip shows up in i2cdetect but I get errors whenever I try to write or read from it. Anyone have any thoughts? I'm pretty new to this and I'm not sure what the next step should be. Perhaps there is something I should send first to turn the LCD on?

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pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo i2cdetect -y 1
     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
20: 20 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --                         
pi@raspberrypi:~$

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pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo i2cget -y 0 0x20
Error: Read failed
pi@raspberrypi:~$

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pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo i2cset -y 0 0x20 0xff 0xff
Error: Write failed
pi@raspberrypi:~$

[tldr]

you are detecting the device on bus 1, but trying to read and write to it on bus 0. try

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sudo i2cget -y 1 0x20

[jsutherl]

Thank you! So simple, I'm sorry I missed it. But thanks for taking the time to point out my issue.