Raspberry Pi SIM7070G Cat-M/NB-IoT/GPRS HAT User Guide

Introduction

SIM7070G NB-IoT / Cat-M / GPRS HAT For Raspberry Pi, Global Band Support, With GNSS Positioning

Features

• Standard Raspberry Pi 40PIN GPIO extension header, supports Raspberry Pi series boards
• Supports communication protocols such as TCP/UDP/HTTP/HTTPS/TLS/DTLS/PING/LWM2M/COAP/MQTT
• Supports GNSS positioning (GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, Galileo)
• Onboard USB interface, to test AT Commands, get GPS positioning data, and so on
• Breakout UART control pins, to connect with host boards like Arduino/STM32
• SIM card slot, supports ONLY 1.8V SIM card (3V SIM card is not available)
• 2x LED indicators, easy to monitor the working status
• Baudrate: 300~3686400 bps
• Common baudrate auto-negotiation: 9600/19200/38400/57600/115200 bps
• Comes with development resources and manual (examples for Raspberry Pi/Arduino/STM32)

User Guide

Testing it in Windows PC

1. Hardware connection and driver installation

• Before testing, you should prepare
  • A Micro USB cable
  • LTE and GPS Antennas
  • The SIM7070G Cat-M/NB-IoT/GPRS HAT
  • An NB-IoT SIM card.
• Insert the SIM card into the SIM7070 board, connect the LTE antenna and the GPS antenna. Connect the micro USB of SIM7070G board to PC by USB cable.
• Hold the PWRKEY button for about 1s to power on the module. After powering on, the STA indicator lights on, NET indicator quick-blinks firstly and then slow-blinks.
• Download the driver file, unzip it. Then update the driver by Devices Manager
• Generally, the SIM7070G will be recognized by PC with three USB ports. To update the driver, you can right-click the USB port and update it with the driver downloaded
• AT Port COM31 is the one used as the communication port. We will use it to test the SIM7080G board.

Note: The SIM7070G modules support global networks. The time to log in the network is different among different areas. And to use the SIM7070G, you should first confirm that LTE-M or LTE-NB network are available in the local area.

2. Test network

For more information about the AT commands, you can refer to SIM7080 Series_AT Command Manual_V1.01

3. Test MQTT

For more information about the MQTT, please refer to SIM7080 Series_MQTT(S)_Application Note_V1.00

Please test Web by clicking here. Please check the TCP port and domain name when testing, for details, refer to here

3. Test TCP

For more information abou tthe TCP, you can refer to Series_TCPUDP(S)_Application Note_V1.00

Note that to test TCP you need to map LAN IP and router firstly.

Command	Description	Return
AT+CACID	Set TCP/UDP index	OK
AT+CASSLCFG	Set SSL parameters	OK
AT+CAOPEN	Open a TCP/UDP connection	OK
AT+CASEND	Send data	OK
AT+CARECV	Receive data	OK
AT+CACLOSE	Cose TCP/UDP connection	OK
AT+CACFG	Set transparent parameters	OK
AT+CASWITCH	Enable transparent mode	Ok

4. Test GNSS

For more information, please refer to SIM7080 Series_GNSS_Application Note_V1.00

When testing GNSS, you should set the GPS antenna in the open area. You can also use u-center software for locating.

Commands	Description	Return
AT+CGNSPWR	Open/close GNSS power	OK
AT+CGNSINF	GNSS information	OK
AT+CGNSCOLD	GNSS cold starting	OK
AT+CGNSWRAM	GNSS warm starting	OK
AT+CGNSHOT	GNSS hot starting	OK
AT+CGNSMOD	GNSS workign mode setting	OK
AT+CGNSXTRA	Open GNSS XTRA	OK
AT+CGNSCPY	Copyt GNSS XTRA file	OK
AT+SGNSCFG	GNSS NMEA output setting	OK
AT+SGNSCMD	AT port output GNSS NMEA data	OK

Use it with Raspberry Pi

Initialize IO and install software

The PWRKEY pin is connected to P7 (wiringPi number) of Raspberry Pi by jumper. To let the SIM7080G board work normally, you should firstly initialize P7 pin. Download codes and run by the following commands.

 sudo apt-get update
wget -P ~/Documents/ http://www.waveshare.net/w/upload/0/02/SIM7080G_Cat_M_NB_IoT_HAT_Code.7z
sudo apt-get install p7zip
cd ~/Documents
sudo p7zip --uncompress SIM7080G_Cat_M_NB_IoT_HAT_Demo_Code.7z
sh ~/Documents/SIM7080G_Cat_M_NB_IoT_HAT_Demo_Code/pi_gpio_init.sh
sudo pip install RPi.GPIO
sudo apt-get install python-serial

Enbale UART and hardware connection

Open raspi-config by following commands, and choose Interfacing Options -> Serial, close login sheel and open the hardware serial port.

sudo rapsi-config

Python codes

The python codes is provided for MQTT function

cd ~/Documents/SIM7080G_Cat_M_NB_IoT_HAT_Demo_Code/python/mqtt
sudo python mqtt.py

Use it with STM32

The demo codes provided is based on Waveshare Open103C, it is use for TCP connecting.

Use it with Arduino

The demo codes provide is based on Arduino UNO. The D10 (RX) and D11 (TX) is used for software serial.

• Schematic
• Source code
• SIM7080 Driver

Related Resources

• Pisugar case
  

Tools

• sscom
• SIMCom GPS
• NetAssist

SIM7000 Related

Datasheets

• File:SIM7080 Series_AT Command Manual_V1.02.pdf
• File:SIM7080G_SPEC_201911.pdf
• File:SIM7080G Hardware Design_V1.03.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_CoAP_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_CTBURST_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_Email_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_FOTA_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_FS_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_FTP_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_GNSS_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_HTTP(S)_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_LBS_Application Note_V1.00.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_Linux_Application Note_V1.00.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_Low Power Mode_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_LwM2M_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_MQTT(S)_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_PING_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_SAT_Application Note_V1.01.pdf
• File:SIM7080 Series_TCPUDP(S)_Application Note_V1.01.pdf

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