diff --git a/.eslintrc.js b/.eslintrc.js
index c11a1d5..2bed546 100644
--- a/.eslintrc.js
+++ b/.eslintrc.js
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 module.exports = {
+  "ecmaFeatures": {
+    "modules": true,
+    "spread" : true,
+    "restParams" : true
+  },
   "env": {
     "es6": true,
     "node": true,
     "mocha": true
   },
   "parserOptions": {
-    "ecmaVersion": 2017
+    "ecmaVersion": 2017,
+    "sourceType": "module"
   },
   "extends": "eslint:recommended",
   "rules": {
diff --git a/.esmrc.json b/.esmrc.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f195c03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.esmrc.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "@std/esm": "cjs"
+}
diff --git a/examples/.gitignore b/examples/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ff939f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+*.log
+*.sock
+/node_modules/
diff --git a/examples/bus.mjs b/examples/bus.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e93b7f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/bus.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/*
+* i2c bus with both unix and tcp socket using defaults.  For TCP that is host OS name and port 8080
+*
+*/
+
+import Bus from  '../src/bus-packet'
+
+const delay = time => new Promise(res=>setTimeout(()=>res(),time))
+
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  // let i2cbus  = new Bus({id:'i2c-bus', log:true})
+  let i2cbus  = new Bus({id:'i2c-bus', sockets:'us,ts', log:true})
+
+  await i2cbus.init()
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/examples/ipc-relay.mjs b/examples/ipc-relay.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2a12334
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/ipc-relay.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/*
+*  A tcp customer/client to talk with the i2c bus and scan the bus for devices
+*
+*/
+
+const PATH = '/opt/uci/uci-base/src/unix.sock'
+
+import Base from  '../../uci-base/src/base'
+// import Base from  '@uci/base'
+
+const delay = time => new Promise(res=>setTimeout(()=>res(),time))
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  let relays = new Base({sockets:'uc', path:PATH, log:true})
+
+  relays.reply = function (packet) {
+    // console.log(packet.bus)
+    console.log('response from relays',packet.bus.func, packet.bus.args.cmd, packet.bus.response)
+  }
+  await relays.init()
+  console.log('=============sending============')
+  let packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'read', args:{address:39 ,cmd: 0}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'write', args:{address:39,cmd: 0, byte:0}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'read', args:{address:39 ,cmd:0}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'write', args:{address:39,cmd: 9, byte:255}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'read', args:{address:39 ,cmd:9}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  await delay(1000)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'write', args:{address:39,cmd: 9, byte:0}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'read', args:{address:39 ,cmd:9}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+
+  await delay(1000)
+  process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM')
+
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/examples/ipc-scan.mjs b/examples/ipc-scan.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c28fe10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/ipc-scan.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/*
+* i2c bus unix socket and client in one for demo
+*
+*/
+
+import Bus from  '../src/bus-packet'
+
+const delay = time => new Promise(res=>setTimeout(()=>res(),time))
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  let i2cbus  = new Bus({id:'i2c-bus', sockets:'us,uc'})
+
+  i2cbus.reply = function (packet) {
+    console.log('==== response from i2cbus =>',packet.bus.response)
+  }
+
+  await i2cbus.init()
+  console.log('=============sending============')
+  let packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'scan'} }
+  console.dir(packet)
+  await i2cbus.send(packet)
+
+  await delay(1000)
+  process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM')
+
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/examples/tcp-relay.mjs b/examples/tcp-relay.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6ac0a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/tcp-relay.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/*
+*  A tcp customer/client to talk with the i2c bus and scan the bus for devices
+*
+*/
+
+const HOST = 'sbc'
+
+import Base from  '../../uci-base/src/base'
+// import Base from  '@uci/base'
+
+const delay = time => new Promise(res=>setTimeout(()=>res(),time))
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  let relays = new Base({id:'tcp-i2c-client', sockets:'tc', host:HOST, log:true})
+
+  relays.reply = function (packet) {
+    // console.log(packet.bus)
+    console.log('response from relays',packet.bus.func, packet.bus.args.cmd, packet.bus.response)
+  }
+  await relays.init()
+  console.log('=============sending============')
+  let packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'read', args:{address:39 ,cmd: 0}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'write', args:{address:39,cmd: 0, byte:0}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'read', args:{address:39 ,cmd:0}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'write', args:{address:39,cmd: 9, byte:255}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'read', args:{address:39 ,cmd:9}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  await delay(1000)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'write', args:{address:39,cmd: 9, byte:0}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+  packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'read', args:{address:39 ,cmd:9}} }
+  console.dir(packet.bus)
+  await relays.send(packet)
+
+  await delay(1000)
+  process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM')
+
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/examples/tcp-scan.mjs b/examples/tcp-scan.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..85a735d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/tcp-scan.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+*  A tcp customer/client to talk with the i2c bus and scan the bus for devices
+*
+*/
+
+const HOST = 'sbc'
+
+
+
+const delay = time => new Promise(res=>setTimeout(()=>res(),time))
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  let scanner = new Base({id:'tcp-i2c-client', sockets:'tc', host:HOST})
+
+  scanner.reply = function (packet) {
+    let addresses = packet.bus.response.map(device => {
+      return device.toString(16)})
+    console.log(packet)
+    console.log('==== device hex addreses on i2cbus ===\n',addresses)
+  }
+  await scanner.init()
+  console.log('=============sending============')
+  let packet = {cmd:'rw', bus:{func:'scan'} }
+  console.dir(packet)
+  await scanner.send(packet)
+
+  await delay(3000)
+  process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM')
+
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
deleted file mode 100644
index f84fe28..0000000
--- a/index.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-let opts = {
-	dirname: __dirname + '/src',
-	// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2078915/a-regular-expression-to-exclude-a-word-string
-	filter: /^(?!index)([^\.].*)\.js?$/,
-	recursive: false,
-	merge: true // remove or comment to have each file in /lib be a prop/key in library...see node-require-all
-}
-module.exports = require('@uci/require-all')(opts)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4a378fe..ff0ac31 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 {
-  "name": "@uci/i2c",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
-  "description": "Bus and Device Classes for I2C Interfacing",
-  "main": "index.js",
+  "name": "@uci/i2c-bus",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "I2c Bus Classes for Communication to I2C bus via socket or direct call",
+  "main": "src/bus",
   "scripts": {
-    "testw": "./node_modules/.bin/mocha  --reporter list --recursive --watch",
-    "test": "istanbul cover ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha test/ --report lcovonly -- -R spec --recursive && codecov || true"
+    "test": "mocha -r @std/esm test/*.test.mjs",
+    "testw": "mocha -r @std/esm test/*.test.mjs --watch --recurse --watch-extensions mjs",
+    "testci": "istanbul cover ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha test/ --report lcovonly -- -R spec --recursive && codecov || true"
   },
   "author": "David Kebler",
   "license": "MIT",
@@ -23,11 +24,14 @@
     "url": "https://github.com/uCOMmandIt/i2c/issues"
   },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/uCOMmandIt/i2c#readme",
+  "@std/esm": "cjs",
   "dependencies": {
-    "@uci/require-all": "^2.x",
-    "i2c-bus": "^1.x"
+    "@uci/base": "^0.1.0",
+    "i2c-bus": "^1.x",
+    "pify": "^3.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
+    "@std/esm": "^0.18.0",
     "chai": "^3.5.0",
     "chai-as-promised": "^6.0.0",
     "codecov": "^1.0.1",
diff --git a/src/bus-packet.mjs b/src/bus-packet.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..598e0af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/bus-packet.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+
+import i2c from 'i2c-bus'
+import pify from 'pify'
+// import Base from '@uci/base'
+import Base from '../../uci-base/src/base'
+
+export default class Bus extends Base {
+  constructor(opts) {
+    opts.sockets = opts.sockets || 'us'
+    super(opts)
+    this.busnum = opts.busnum || 1
+    this.i2cbus = i2c.open(this.busnum, () => {})
+    this.funcs = bus_funcs
+    // this.init = this.init.bind(this)
+  }
+
+  async init(){
+    // console.log('init', this.rw)
+    await super.init()
+  }
+
+  async rw (packet){
+    // console.dir('=>',packet.bus.fusncs)
+    if (!packet.bus.func) return  {error: 'no i2c bus function in packet', packet: packet.bus }
+    if (this.funcs[packet.bus.func]) {
+      packet.bus.response = await this.funcs[packet.bus.func].bind(this)(packet.bus.args)
+      packet.cmd = 'reply'
+      return packet
+    }
+    return  {error: 'no i2c bus function available for packet function', packet: packet.bus }
+  }
+
+} // end of Bus Packet Class
+
+const bus_funcs = {
+
+  scan: function () { return pify(this.i2cbus.scan).bind(this.i2cbus)() },
+  close: function () { return pify(this.i2cbus.close).bind(this.i2cbus)() },
+
+  readRaw: function (arg) {
+    return pify(this.i2cbus.i2cRead).bind(this.i2cbus)(arg.address, arg.length, arg.buffer)
+  },
+
+  writeRaw: function (arg) {
+    return pify(this.i2cbus.i2cWrite).bind(this.i2cbus)(arg.address, arg.length, arg.buffer)
+  },
+
+  read: function (arg) {
+  // console.log('read: address, cmd', address, cmd)
+    return pify(this.i2cbus.readByte).bind(this.i2cbus)(arg.address, arg.cmd)
+  },
+
+  write: function (arg) {
+    // console.log('write: address, cmd, byte', arg.address, arg.cmd, arg.byte)
+    return pify(this.i2cbus.writeByte.bind(this.i2cbus))(arg.address, arg.cmd, arg.byte)
+  },
+
+  read2: function (arg) {
+    return pify(this.i2cbus.readWord.bind(this.i2cbus))(arg.address, arg.cmd)
+  },
+
+  write2: function (arg) {
+    return pify(this.i2cbus.writeWord.bind(this.i2cbus))(arg.address, arg.cmd, arg.bytes)
+  },
+
+  receive: function (arg) {
+  // console.log('receivebyte', address)
+    return pify(this.i2cbus.receiveByte.bind(this.i2cbus))(arg.address)
+  },
+
+  send: function (arg) {
+  // console.log('sendbyte', address,byte)
+    return pify(this.i2cbus.sendByte.bind(this.i2cbus))(arg.address, arg.byte)
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/bus.js b/src/bus.mjs
similarity index 84%
rename from src/bus.js
rename to src/bus.mjs
index 53d2242..a6f6f3e 100644
--- a/src/bus.js
+++ b/src/bus.mjs
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
-// Solely a promise wrapper module for the basic async functions of the fivdi/i2c-bus javascript bindings C API
-// https://github.com/fivdi/i2c-bus
 
-'use strict'
+import i2c from 'i2c-bus'
+import pify from 'pify'
 
-const i2c = require('i2c-bus'),
-  pify = require('pify')
-
-class Bus {
+export default class Bus {
   constructor(busnum=1) {
     this.busnum = busnum
     this.bus = i2c.open(this.busnum, () => {})
@@ -55,7 +51,3 @@ class Bus {
 
 
 } // end of Bus Class
-
-module.exports = {
-  Bus
-}
diff --git a/src/device.js b/src/device.js
deleted file mode 100644
index e2c9425..0000000
--- a/src/device.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-'use strict'
-
-// **********************************
-
-class Device {
-  // bus is i2c-bus bus object
-  constructor(bus, address, opts) {
-    this.bus = bus
-    this.address = address
-    if (opts) {
-      this.id = opts.id // must be unique within a bus
-      this.desc = opts.desc
-      this.channel = opts.channel  // if using TAC9546A channel number on which device is attached
-    }
-  }
-
-  async _setChannel() {
-    // console.log('before set',this.address,this.id,this.channel, this.bus.getState)
-    if (this.channel) {
-      if (!this.bus.address) { return Promise.reject('Channel set but no mux on bus')}
-      return this.bus.set(this.channel)
-    }
-    return Promise.resolve()  // no channel for device either no mux or device is attached to mux bypass
-  }
-
-  // for devices that need just a simple send of a byte without a register command
-  async receive() {
-    await this._setChannel()
-    return this.bus.receive(this.address)
-  }
-
-  async send(cmd, byte) {
-    await this._setChannel()
-    return this.bus.send(this.address, cmd, byte)
-  }
-
-  // for devices needing a buffer/stream
-  async readRaw(length, buffer) {
-    await this._setChannel()
-    return this.bus.readRaw(this.address, length, buffer)
-  }
-
-  async writeRaw(length, buffer) {
-    await this._setChannel()
-    return this.bus.writeRaw(this.address, length, buffer)
-  }
-
-  // both cmd and byte should be a single byte as a decimal or hex
-  async read(cmd) {
-    await this._setChannel()
-    // console.log('after set before read',this.address,this.id,this.channel,this.bus.getState)
-    return this.bus.read(this.address, cmd)
-  }
-
-  async write(cmd, byte) {
-    await this._setChannel()
-    // console.log('after set, before write',this.address,this.id,this.channel,this.bus.getState)
-    return this.bus.write(this.address, cmd, byte)
-  }
-
-  // for I2C devices that use a word length packackage
-  async read2(cmd) {
-    await this._setChannel()
-    return this.bus.read2(this.address, cmd)
-  }
-
-  async write2(cmd, bytes) {
-    await this._setChannel()
-    return this.bus.write2(this.address, cmd, bytes)
-  }
-
-}
-
-module.exports = {
-  Device
-}
diff --git a/test/bus.test.js b/test/bus.test.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 52fed6d..0000000
--- a/test/bus.test.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-'use strict'
-
-const chai = require('chai'),
-  chaiAsPromised = require("chai-as-promised"),
-  Bus = require('../lib/bus').Bus
-
-chai.use(chaiAsPromised)
-
-const expect = chai.expect
-
-let bus = new Bus()
-
-// const addresses = [0x20, 0x26, 0x27]
-const addresses = []
-
-describe('Bus Class - ', function () {
-
-  it('Can scan the bus for devices', function () {
-
-    return expect(bus.scan().catch(err => console.log("an error", err))).to.eventually.deep.equal(addresses)
-
-  })
-})
diff --git a/test/bus.test.mjs b/test/bus.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f6ecb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/bus.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import Bus from  '../src/bus'
+import chai from  'chai'
+import chaiAsPromised from 'chai-as-promised'
+
+chai.use(chaiAsPromised)
+
+const expect = chai.expect
+
+let bus = new Bus()
+
+const addresses = [0x25, 0x26, 0x27]
+// const addresses = []
+
+describe('Bus Class - ', function () {
+
+  it('Can scan the bus for devices', function () {
+
+    return expect(bus.scan().catch(err => console.log('an error', err))).to.eventually.deep.equal(addresses)
+
+  })
+})
diff --git a/test/device.test.js b/test/device.test.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 75d74c1..0000000
--- a/test/device.test.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-'use strict'
-
-const chai = require('chai'),
-	chaiAsPromised = require('chai-as-promised'),
-	Bus = require('@uci/i2c').Bus,
-	Device = require('../lib/device').Device
-
-chai.use(chaiAsPromised);
-
-const expect = chai.expect
-
-let bus = new Bus()
-let device = new Device(bus, 0x20)
-
-describe('Device Class - ', function () {
-
-	let SET = 0xff
-	it('Can write and read to actual device', function () {
-
-		device.write(0x09, SET).then(expect(device.read(0x0A)).to.eventually.equal(SET))
-			.then(setTimeout(() => device.write(0x09, 0), 3000))
-			.catch(err => console.log('an error', err))
-	})
-})