Africa's Talking v1 R1 Dev Kit SIM 800L Sample for STM32CubeIDE

TLDR;

To get up and running quickly with this sample, follow the steps below:

1. Insert the activated IoT SIM into the SIM Slot

2. Attach the SIM Module

3. Flash ./Dist/devkitr1gsm.bin in to your dev kit.

4. Open Serial to view SIM Connection status

For a detailed write up, read below

• See overrall config as shown below

• Set HSE to Crystal/Ceramic Resonator and disable LSE as shown

• Set serial mode to Asynchronous for both USART1 and USART2 and ensure gloabl interrupt is enabled under NVIC Settings

Clock Configuration

• See below clock configuration.

  • Toggle PLL and PLLCLK
  • Set input frequency to 8Mhz

• You might want to set the multiplier PLLMul to 11 or above then click Resolve Clock Issues

Project Management

• Under Project Manager ensure Generate peripheral initialization... is checked

• Then inside Advanced Settings Set USART driver to LL
  

SAVE AND GENERATE PROJECT

Important

• See the APN configuration inside ./Core/Src/main.c

• Note that the line shown below is commented under ./Core/Src/syscalls.c

extern int __io_putchar(int ch) __attribute__((weak)); 

• Also note that an IRQ handler is required for USART1; see ./Core/Src/stm32f1xx_it.c.

• Note the differences under ./Core/{*}/usart.{*}