SIM8200EA-M2 5G HAT

SIM8200EA-M2 HAT SIM8200EA-M2 6x antennas Mainly applicable for China, Europe, the Middle East, South America...

SIM8202G-M2 HAT SIM8202G-M2 4x antennas

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Onboard Interfaces RPi USB 5G USB3.0

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SIM8200EA-M2：6x antennas version, size:30×52mm
SIM8202G-M2：4x antennas, size:30×42mm,
compatible hardware interface, identical software function.

Introduction

SIM8200EA-M2 5G HAT With Antennas, 5G/4G/3G Support, Snapdragon X55 Onboard, Multi Mode Multi Band, Applicable For China, Europe, The Middle East, South America, Etc.

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Assembly drawing

Assembly drawing

Working with Windows PC

Install Driver

Download the SIM8200 Driver from the Resources part to your PC and unzip it.
Enter the SIM8200_OS_Driver\Windows directory.
Enter the 1_install directory and run the setup.exe file to install.

After connecting, a mobile network icon appears, and you can disconnect the other networks and test the mobile network.

Install Driver Manually

For some of PC, you need to add a driver manually. If your PC doesn't recognize any COM ports in Device Manager, find unknown devices and update the driver manually:
d Power on the 5G module and set the Switch to ON. four(it may be more than four) unknown devices are recognized by Windows PC.

Right-click the device, update the driver manually, choose SIM8200_OS_Driver\Windows, and then choose the driver according to the version of your OS. You need to update all four/five/six devices.:

Four COM ports: AT is used for AT command controlling, Audio is used for dialing Diagnostics is used for debugging, and NMEA is used for GPS.


A mobile network will be set up automatically after updating, you can disconnect other networks and test it.

Manual NDIS Dial-up Internet

After installing the driver, some computers cannot automatically dial up to access the Internet, so you need to dial manually, the operation is as follows：

AT$QCRMCALL=1,1

After dialing is successful, as shown in the figure below, the computer can go online normally.

GPS Positioning

ANT5 for SIM8200EA-M2; ANT2 for SIM8202G-M2; ANT3 for SIM8262E-M2. For details, you can refer yo the module hardware user manual.

Connect the passive GPS antenna to the ANT5 of the module, and place the antenna outdoors facing the sky. Then send the AT command to turn on the GPS:

AT+CGPS=1

Now open the NEMA port, and you can get GPS data:

Finally, turn off the GPS, you can use the AT command:

AT+CGPS=0

SIM Card Config

• SIM card 1 is used by default, and you can use the following commands to switch to SIM1 when it is SIM2.

 AT+SMSIMCFG=1,1

• Or you can directly switch to SIM2:

AT+SMSIMCFG=1,2

• If it still does not work, consider that the flight mode is on, and turn off the flight mode with the following command:

T+CFUN=1

Working with Raspberry Pi

The use of Raspberry Pi OS

NDIS Dial-Up

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
wget https://files.waveshare.com/upload/8/89/SIM8200_for_RPI.7z
7z x SIM8200_for_RPI.7z -r -o./SIM8200_for_RPI
sudo chmod 777 -R SIM8200_for_RPI
cd SIM8200_for_RPI/Goonline
make
sudo ./simcom-cm &
sudo apt-get install udhcpc
sudo udhcpc -i wwan0
sudo route add -net 0.0.0.0 wwan0

You can successfully see that DNS has been generated at the bottom

Auto-start at boot

Set the boot up, and open the Raspberry Pi boot configuration script.

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Add the startup command to the penultimate line, note that it is the absolute path of your running Internet file, that is, the previous line of exit 0.

sudo /home/pi/SIM8200_for_RPI/Goonline/simcom-cm &
sudo udhcpc -i wwan0

Note that you must add "&" to run in the background, otherwise, the system may not be able to start.

RNDIS Dial-Up

• Check whether SIM820X and Raspberry Pi and other devices are connected well through the following commands, if there is no problem, you can see Qualcomm devices and ttyUSB0-USB4

 lsusb
 ls /dev

• After connecting the device, copy the following commands to the Terminal:

wget https://files.waveshare.com/upload/1/1e/SIM820X_RNDIS.zip
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install pyserial
sudo apt-get install unzip
unzip  SIM820X_RNDIS.zip
sudo chmod 777 SIM820X_RNDIS.py
sudo python3 SIM820X_RNDIS.py

• After dialing, the Raspberry Pi can see that usb0 gets the ip through the following command:

ifconfig

• Test usb0 networking status

 ping -I usb0 www.baidu.com

• If you cannot get the IP or fail to connect to the Internet, use the following commands to get the IP and connect to the Internet:

sudo dhclient -v usb0
sudo apt-get install udhcpc
sudo udhcpc -i usb0
sudo route add -net 0.0.0.0 usb0

If you need to switch to Windows, or restore the default settings of the module, you can send the following command to restore through the serial port:

at+cusbcfg=usbid,1e0e,9001

The use of OpenWrt

Introduction to OpenWrt

Soft routing is using desktops or servers and other equipment with software. It mainly depends on the settings of the software to achieve the functions of the router. The hard routing is a unique hardware device, including a processor, power supply, and embedded software to provide router functionality.
OpenWrt is a very popular soft routing system. It is a highly modular and highly automated embedded Linux system with powerful network components and scalability. It is often used in industrial control equipment, routers, and other equipment.
In addition to the functions of general home routers, OpenWrt soft routing can also achieve port forwarding, intranet penetration, 4G networking, FTP server and more powerful functions.

Burn the image

Download the RPI OpenWrt system, unzip the system in the Imgs directory, and use the burning tool to burn the system to the SD card.

Login and initial settings

• After the OpenWrt system is turned on, the Raspberry Pi is equivalent to a router. Therefore, use a network cable to connect the Raspberry Pi to the computer according to the use of the router (you can also use the mobile phone to search for WIFI, the default name is "OpenWrt").
• You can set the language to auto first.

• Enter 192.168.1.1 on the web page, the default user name: root, and the default password: password, enter the OpenWrt web management interface.

• Set WIFI password: Network —> Wireless —> interface configuration —> Wireless security.

• Create the new interface: Network -> Interface -> Create interface.
• Modify the IPv4 address of the LAN port to a different IP that is not the same as the LAN port IP of other routers in your home. (Many routers default the LAN port IP to 192.168.1.1. If you do not modify the IP of the OpenWrt, it will easily lead to conflicts and failure to connect to the Internet).
  

If necessary, it is also recommended to disable the IPv6 allocation length. After the modification is completed, click "Save & Apply", and re-use 192.168.10.1 to access the OpenWrt console.

• In addition, it is recommended to adjust the Firewall setting to connect the OpenWrt terminal and Web management interface through the local area.

Network —> Firewall, change all "reject" to "accept", and click "Save & Apply" after modification, as shown in the picture below:

• And then select System -> Administration, modify the allowed interface for SSH access to "unspecified" (that is, any interface can be accessed by ssh), check the Gateway port, and click "Save & Apply" after the modification is completed.

At this point, you can connect to the OpenWrt web management interface or terminal through the IP address of the LAN port or wan port.

Check the working status of the drive

Connect to the OpenWrt terminal via SSH, and run the following commands to view the qmi driver, USB device, network port registration, and network port status:

dmesg | grep qmi
dmesg | grep ttyUSB 
ls /dev | grep cdc-wdm 
ifconfig wwan0

Configure networking

• Select System -> FileTransfer, select and upload simcom-cm in the simcom-cm directory of the folder:

Use the above "File Transfer" to upload, the uploaded program is located in "simcom-cm" under the /tmp/upload/ directory.

Enter the following commands in the terminal:

cp /tmp/upload/simcom-cm /
chmod a+x simcom-cm
./simcom-cm

【Note】: Closing this terminal will cause the networking program to stop, which will cause the network to be disconnected. It is recommended to run in the background.

• At this time, open a new terminal of OpenWrt and enter the command: ifconfig wwan0. You can see that the wwan0 network port has successfully obtained the operator IP and can ping the external network.

• Enter the Web management interface of OpenWrt, click Network —>Interface —>Create a new interface.

• Enter the interface as shown in the picture below and confirm that the interface selection in "Physical Settings" is "wwan0".

• Confirm that the interface selection in "Firewall Settings" is "wan".

• Click "Save & Apply" to complete the network port settings, then return to the interface below, network-interface, you can see that the network port has been correctly identified.

Then the other devices can be connected to the OpenWrt wireless "OpenWrt" or through the network cable to connect to OpenWrt's own network port for networking.

5G Network Speed Test

In the speed measurement part, because the Raspberry Pi comes with a Gigabit Ethernet port, and there are few USB network cards above Gigabit, we use the SpeedTest For Python tool to perform speed measurement by the commands. Connect to the terminal of OpenWrt and enter the commands one by one to measure the speed:

## OpenWRT
opkg update   
opkg install python3
opkg install python3-pip
pip install speedtest_cli 
speedtest      # or use speedtest_cli

When the SIM8202G module is registered to the 5G network and has a good signal, it connects to OpenWrt's hotspot (5.8G) through the cell phone, and the cell phone can measure the speed up to about 100 megabytes, the actual speed measurement may be different, for reference only.

Raspberry Pi minicom Serial Port Debugging

1. Insert the module into the Raspberry Pi and set the S_TX and S_RX of the dipswitch to ON.

2. Install minicom, minicom is the serial port debugging tool for Linux.

Use minicom to open ttyUSB2:

 sudo minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB2

Send to enable the UART serial port:

AT+CCUART=1

3. Open ttyS0 via minicom - ttyS0 is the serial port of the Raspberry Pi 3B/3B+/4B, and the default baud rate is 115200.

sudo minicom -D /dev/ttyS0

4. Raspberry Pi 2B/zero, the user serial device number is ttyAMA0; you can use the following command line to confirm that serial0 is the selected serial device number, as follows:

ls -l /dev/serial*

Schematic

• SIM8200 Schematic

Assembly drawing

• Assembly drawing

Demo Codes

• SIM8200-M2_5G_HAT Demo codes
• RPI OpenWrt System

Software

• SIM8200 Driver
• SSCOM Software
• GPS Software
• Xshell software
• Unicode software

Document

• SIm8200 Series AT Command Manual
• SIM8200EA-M2 Hardware Design Manual
• SIMcom SIM8200EA-M2 resources
• SIMcom SIM8202G-M2 resources
• SIM820X RNDIS Dial-Up

Related application cases

• SIM820X 5G HAT is equipped with Raspbian Pi to open hotspots
• SIM820X PPP Dial-Up

FAQ

Question:Why is my 5G speed not as fast as the Internet says?

 Answer:

First of all, it is necessary to understand the laboratory data and actual data. In practice, due to insufficient base stations, poor signal coverage, and many 5G coverage holes, the network speed may not reach the highest peak. Under normal circumstances, the 4G upload speed is stable at 20-40Mbps, and the 5G upload speed is stable at 100Mbps (less people, the faster the speed is closer to the base station)

Question:Why return NO CARRIER after NDIS dialing on the computer?

AT$QCRMCALL=1,1

 Answer:

• Under normal circumstances, SIM820X has been automatically dialed after receiving the Windows system, and there is no need to repeat dialing. Repeated dialing will return NO CARRIER
• If you still can't dial-up Internet access, please use the following command to change to Windows default dial-up Internet access mode

  AT+CUSBPIDSWITCH=9001,1,1 

• The display is turned off, the mobile network is not enabled, you can ignore it and go online directly;

• You can also install the driver SIM7600X dial-up Driver to update the network card

• The network card display is enabled after installing the driver

Question:SIM820X module NDIS dialing failure, what should I do if the driver cannot be installed?

 Answer:

• It is recommended to use the more convenient RNDIS dial
• You can burn the latest Raspberry Pi Raspbian system, reconfigure NDIS dial-up
• Or use the image that has already been configured with the driver RNDIS dial-up self-starting Raspbian system image (driver installed)

Question:SIM820X has no network after fixed 5G, what should I do if the 5G network speed is very slow?

 Answer:

• Confirm that the SIM card connected to the SIM820X can use 5G in mobile phones and other devices through test and other methods
• After confirming that the SIM card is normal and the local 5G network is covered, follow the steps below to fix 5G (to increase the network speed)

AT+CNBP? //(Can copy the frequency band to Notepad) Backup frequency band
AT + CNBP = 0x100600000FC00000, 0X000000000000000046000001E2000908DD, 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 // Give SIM820X
AT+CNMP=71 // Fixed 5G

Question:Use spi or usb to transfer data?

 Answer:

usb, running sudo ./install on the Raspberry Pi will load the USB driver, and we will connect and communicate with the 3B/4B USB connector; Windows also loads the USB driver according to the tutorial. If there is no USB driver, it will be displayed as an unknown device. .

Question:Does the Raspberry Pi control occupy pins?

 Answer:

Not occupied by default.

Question:Why does the Raspberry Pi fail to load when running sudo ./install?

 Answer:

Make sure that your system kernel is above 5.4. Do not use sudo update to upgrade the Raspberry Pi to the latest version, otherwise the kernel version will be upgraded to a version higher than the current firmware and it will not be recognized.

Question:Can I use multiple 5G modules at the same time?

 Answer:

Yes, connect to different USB ports of different hosts, take Raspberry Pi as an example, and the commands for dialing up the Internet at the same time are as follows:

sudo ./simcom-cm -i wwan0
sudo ./simcom-cm -i wwan1