- Author: Philippe Proulx
- Date: Fri Sep 13 18:05:26 EDT 2013
I am using the built in GSM (UMTS) modem of my Thinkpad X1 extensively because I am often in places with flaky internet connections. I connect through the standard Network Manager on Ubuntu and everything works fine. There was one major annoyance though. Every time I wanted to top up the SIM balance or book a new package, I needed a phone to send and receive USSD codes. So I took some time to figure out how to do it from the shell. I wrote this down as a help for others and a reminder for myself. Without further ado...
First intsall gammu and picocom.
➜ ~ sudo apt-get install -y gammu picocom
Note: This is a bit of a scratch to see what's involved in getting the ping sensor to work as an I2C backpack.
I did this on a Trinket as that's what I had to hand to make programming a bit faster. If you use a trinket you will need the custom arduino. Check out the Adafruit Trinket info https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-trinket/introduction
You also need a custom form of the TinyWireS library that manages sending multiple registers on one read request (the
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