\n| \nat+sapbr=3,1,”contype”,”gprs”\n<\/td>\n | \nYou can set the connection type to GPRS (data) or CSD (circuit switched) – i think this is why you can call or do data on gsm networks, but not both (at the same time).\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| \nat+sapbr=3,1,”apn”,”wholesale”\n<\/td>\n | \nUntil you set your access point name, you might not be able to do things like geolocate (based on cell towers) or do data stuff. TING’s APN is “wholesale” – im sure it is different for every provider.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| \nat+cipgsmloc=1,1\n<\/td>\n | \nThis gives you your lat\/lon. Note that on my old T-Mobile sim card, which had no data plan, i got nothing back for some reason; apparently you have to have a data plan to get this info?\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n For SMS (which i used only briefly) I found the following useful:<\/p>\n \n\n| at+cmgl=”all”<\/td>\n | I didn’t realize this, but all text messages really are stored somewhere in the providers network, at least until you do something with them (makes sense) – i just found it interesting that I transplated my SIM card from my tmobile device to my FONA, and could see text messages from years ago.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| at+cmgs=”180188xyzwl”<\/td>\n | This is of course how you send a text. You press enter, after typing the phone number (“1801..” – notice the leading “1”, since im in the USA; not sure if this is needed, but it works with it). When you are done you must hit ; if you hit it cancels the message!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nat+cmgr=\n| This is your way of reading a text message<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n For GPS I used the following (note I have v2 of the FONA808 – the commands are different for v1)<\/p>\n \n\n| AT+CGNSPWR=1<\/td>\n | The device starts with the GPS off. So i turn it on, cause i want it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| AT+CGNSINF<\/td>\n | Gives you a crudload of gps-related info, including lat-lon, altitude, utc, etc. (see table 2-2 in the “SIM800 GNSS Application Note”)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n| <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These are more like “the commands i have found useful as of present.” I bear no real affinity for them, except that I do appreciate the data they yield. AT+COPS? Ensure you are connected to the network (it gives “+COPS: 0” if you are not) at+ccid Get the SIM number; you need this for activation … Continue reading My favorite FONA commands<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-cell-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | | | | |