
Nothing I have tried will let me link the output byte of the I2C read-byte to the input byte of the byte-to-bits. What am I missing? It seems so logical to me.
You need xod/bits/u8-to-number

The input and outputs of byte-to-bits are of the datatype number. XOD doesn’t have a bit datatype. XOD’s datatypes are described here:
https://xod.io/docs/reference/data-types/
Thanks. That does it.