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- Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:20 am #55854 hi, i am a newbie in esp8266 nodemcu esp-12. Was given a task to stream data of the gy85 to thinkspeak,
i had connected gy85 to arduino uno and it work perfectly fine.

please advise on how to connect and how should i code it.

Thanks

- Thu Sep 29, 2016 11:14 pm #55895 First of all will be great to provide your used wiring diagram.
For ESP8266 connection be sure that you use on GY-85 for PWR in the 3.3V input pin not the 5V one.

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- Tue Oct 04, 2016 6:05 am #56042 hi trackerj, this is the connection that i used

gy85 to mcp3208 to nodemcu
GND -> AGND
SCL -> CH1
SCA -> CH0
CLK -> D5
Dout -> D6
Din -> D7
CS/SHDN -> D8
DGND -> GND

please advise how should i write the program in order to stream to thingspeak

- Fri Oct 07, 2016 7:04 am #56182 What do you want to use? Arduino IDE? NodeMCU? ESPBasic?

Did you tried to run a I2C scanbus to see if you have any response from your sensor board?

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