RAK5860 WisBlock Nb-Iot BG77 Series GNSS

I don’t understand. Are you joking Sir with us Sir ?

Zoltan

@magdoz59
I explained several times, there is no NB-IoT available in my country. I cannot test anything even if I had the module.

@JeroenKl
I guess you do not have a second RAK5005-O base board to test?

Yes, You explained to us. Thanks.

Are you kind to point us to another RAKwireless person who is competent to give real technical advices/solutions in short time ?

You have to split WisBlock forum section into LoraWan and Cellular related questions, I think :thinking: You are good with LoraWan but need someone else to manage the Cellular section of the WisBlock modules…

Thanks in advance
Zoltan

Hi Bernd,

Yes I have and I tested it with my spare RAK5005-O and RAK4630.
Unfortunatley experiencing the same problem:
No serial data from RAK5830 board:

13:32:35.167 → BG77 power up!
13:32:35.682 →
13:32:38.159 →
13:32:40.640 →
13:32:43.163 →
13:32:45.645 →
13:32:50.135 →
13:32:52.675 →
13:32:55.157 →
13:32:57.638 →
13:33:00.123 →
13:33:02.649 →
13:33:05.128 →
13:33:07.654 →
13:33:10.135 →
13:33:15.093 →
13:33:17.384 →
13:33:18.697 →
13:33:20.004 →
13:33:25.896 →
13:33:27.858 → Send test data to Hologram via TCP!
13:33:28.888 →

Unfortunately with my ‘old’ sketch also no serial data anymore.
A pity a don’t have a spare RAK5860 to check.

BR,

Jeroen

Too much time to solve the current issues !
I applied for trade back my WisBlock devices to something else from RAKwireless range…

Maybe, after some time, the WisBlock modules will be bug free, and we can invest our money and time to buy them.

Shame of RAK wireless sw guru team/ Ken Yu/ Telle/… and all you people from your company to not pay attention to this issues.for so many time, or maybe they are not so clever after all… and have no solution !

Hi @JeroenKl @magdoz59 ,

I requested a GPS parsing code from the SW team. You can try this updated code.

I haven’t tried it to connect hologram since NB-IoT is not available to me. But you can if there is a network on your location. GPS is working to me. And this is my logs on serial monitor.

The GPS format of BG77 is DDMM.MMMM so you might need to convert it first depending on your application. Please be patient on GPS fix. It can be a minute or few more minutes. Also ensure you are powered by battery and only by the USB port. I hope it helps :+1:

Online conversion tool for DDMM.MMMM GPS format

https://www.pgc.umn.edu/apps/convert/

Thank You. I will try at morning. 12.27am here…

The GPS working now but no more Hologram/Vodafone/Spark connection we have…

maybe enabling the BG77 GNSS functionality we have to stop that ? not only AT+QGPSEND but something more ?

AT+QGPSEND will turn off GPS immediately based on the Quectel BG77 GNSS Application document. So that is enough. Unless there are any error.

I hope you will be able to use your Hologram SIM now at your place with the update on the GPS coordinate parsing :+1:

Sorry. Talk tomorrow ? When it’s suitable to You ? I’m located at Aucland/Nz.

No problem :+1:

Let’s try the firmware then let’s see. Of course, I want your tracker to work now :100:

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I tried and still got no serial output:
15:38:16.785 → BG77 power up!
15:38:17.295 →
15:38:19.811 →
15:38:22.304 →
15:38:24.780 →
15:38:27.296 →
15:38:32.248 →
15:38:39.124 →
15:38:41.132 → Send test data to Hologram via TCP!

was deleted from the Dropbox?

Just an idea. There is a status where the BG77 doesn’t response to AT command, but instead is forwarding received data from a connection.

Try to send +++ to the BG77 and check if it reacts to AT commands after that.

Source: https://forums.quectel.com/t/how-to-send-at-command-to-ec20-module-to-read-some-data-if-gsm-port-already-acquired-by-pppd-service/5401/3

I’ll try soon, busy with some meetings… Something blocked the BG77 to return to the basic state.
I try to remember all the steps what I did:

  1. First access to Hologram … OK… I got connection… My post (25/55, 7d ago)
  2. Activated the 34pin to get GNSS data … OK …
  3. Second time attempt to access the Hologram/Spark/Vodafone/ … NO Connection !
    … something pending somewhere after activating the GNSS functions.

My thoughts,
Zoltan

Any new suggestions from You Sir? I see, Jeroen tested your code… was busy morning to me …

Yea I tried with Halogram and no success.

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Sir, keep try. maybe we can have some solution soon if more people/users keep pushing for one solution !
Thanks
Zoltan

I dont now what happen but it was still there. Resending it here.

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