Crannog
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Fona SIM808 stops responding

Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:11 pm

Hi,

I'm new to forum and pi so please forgive stupid questions. I've a pi3 with which I'm building a weather station. I'm running it headless over a wireless network and windows PC for setup etc. To transmit data I plan to use a Adafruit Fona SIM 808 with GPS. I've wired it up as per tutorial, disabled serial port in raspi-config etc. On boot I tried using "screen" to access ttyS0 with "AT" command. Sometimes is comes back "OK" on first request then further commands get no response (including "AT" again). Sometimes is gives no response at all. Any ideas why and how to fix?

Crannog
Posts: 8
Joined: Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:00 pm

Re: Fona SIM808 stops responding

Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:57 am

Hi,

Update, tried same SD card in a Pi Zero with FONA 808 attached. Worked perfectly! I can only guess it is a hardware issue on Raspberry Pi 3 that is not present on the Zero.

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