# Is there any way to communicate between MangOH red and Raspberry Pi 3?

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**Category:** mangOH Red\
**Created:** [November 17, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/is-there-any-way-to-communicate-between-mangoh-red-and-raspberry-pi-3/915 "2017-11-17T05:46:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![cheran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cheran](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/cheran)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/is-there-any-way-to-communicate-between-mangoh-red-and-raspberry-pi-3/915/1 "2017-11-17T05:46:27Z")

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I have MangOH red board alone, I want to interface Raspberry pi 3 and MangOH with the help of SPI, UART etc just using GPIO of pi. can anybody help in this?

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**Author:** ![asyal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/mangoh.discourse.group/asyal/32/78_2.png) [@asyal](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/asyal)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/is-there-any-way-to-communicate-between-mangoh-red-and-raspberry-pi-3/915/2 "2017-11-18T18:16:45Z")

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Do you have a wp module on the mangoh red?

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**Author:** ![cheran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cheran](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/cheran)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/is-there-any-way-to-communicate-between-mangoh-red-and-raspberry-pi-3/915/3 "2017-11-20T04:27:31Z")

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Yes.I have WP8548 on MangOH RED

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**Author:** ![asyal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/mangoh.discourse.group/asyal/32/78_2.png) [@asyal](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/asyal)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/is-there-any-way-to-communicate-between-mangoh-red-and-raspberry-pi-3/915/4 "2017-11-20T04:29:54Z")

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You can use UART or I2C to communicate with the Pi.  
For i2c here is some sample code:  
[https://github.com/mangOH/mangOH/tree/master/samples/tutorials/mangOH\_Red/i2c/BatteryChargerReading](https://github.com/mangOH/mangOH/tree/master/samples/tutorials/mangOH_Red/i2c/BatteryChargerReading)

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**Author:** ![cheran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cheran](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/cheran)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/is-there-any-way-to-communicate-between-mangoh-red-and-raspberry-pi-3/915/5 "2017-11-20T12:20:01Z")

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will it work for pi3, I see that the sample code is using the Legato framework, So it is possible only with legato? I want to try without legato, do you have any possible solutions?