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Arduino SIM800L Problem...

thomieboy
thomieboy over 9 years ago

Hello everyone!

 

I want to make a small project and I want to send text messages with my arduino. I bought a small SIM800L board but I have a weird problem.
This is the board I use, and I connected it to my arduino via SoftwareSerial. The arduino just acts as a pass trough between the module and the Arduino serial window.

 

So I first check if there is a connection by sending "AT", this works fine. Before I can do anything I have to set the password, to check that I send "AT+CPIN?". The module answers this with "SIM PIN", that means I indeed need to enter the pin first. I can do that by putting in this "AT+CPIN="1111". The module accepts this and sends a confirmation that the pin is correct and I am ready to go. Here is what I see.

 

AT

OK

AT+CPIN?

+CPIN: SIM PIN

OK

AT+CPIN="1111"

OK

+CPIN: READY

Call Ready

SMS Ready

 

But when I check again with the pin, it says it needs to be entered. This and a few things I have tried show that the module resets itself. This is another thing that shows this, when I enable more informative errors, instead of sending just ERROR, it sends why. I enabled that and after entering the pin, that was disabled again. Which means the module resets itself.

 

The first thing I tought it was a power issue, but there is little to no drop in voltage and the current is max 140mA and my supply can handle 2A.

 

Does anyone here has experienced this before or knows what the problem is?

Thanks in advance! image

 

Grtz,

Thomas

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    0 strb over 9 years ago

    The datasheet at page 21 say that you can have peak up to 2A (I've found this http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/images/4/46/SIM800L_Hardware_Design_V1.00.pdf ), so are you sure that the power supply don't drop down too much during this peak?In theory if the voltage go below 3.4V it shut down automatically, page 25

    I hope that this will help

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    0 thomieboy over 9 years ago in reply to strb

    I hooked up my multimeter and the voltage drops from 4.11 to 3.98 when I send a command. Maybe the peak is higher and not really easy to measure with a normal multimeter. I will try to hook up a scope to see, but I don't have one around right now.

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    0 strb over 9 years ago in reply to thomieboy

    Why not use arduino to try to reveal low peaks? You can use one of the analog input to measure the voltage of the other board (first you send an instruction to the sim800l and then arduino start to control the voltage), if it drop down a certain threshold it can turn on a led or something else, probably arduino's ADC is faster than a multimeter, or if you have an operational amplifier you can use it to activate an arduino's interrupt, I think that is the better choice to reveal peaks.

    You can also try to use a battery as power supply but I'm not sure that it can be enough.

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    0 pettitda over 9 years ago in reply to thomieboy

    A multimeter isn't fast enough to catch most power glitches.  You'll need to use an oscilloscope. 

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    0 thomieboy over 9 years ago in reply to pettitda

    Alright, I should be able to get hold of one for testing, and I'll post the results here. Thank you.

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    0 thomieboy over 9 years ago in reply to pettitda

    Alright, I should be able to get hold of one for testing, and I'll post the results here. Thank you.

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    0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to thomieboy

    Did you find something? Because I have the same problem...

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    0 thomieboy over 8 years ago in reply to Former Member

    No image  I never got it to work, it was hard, but I had to give up on this.

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