Receiving data from SIM808

Question

I am trying to use SIM808 module but I have no response even after sending only "AT". I am using 5V/2.5A AC/DC adapter. The board (ecb-v3.2) is rather connected well because two diodes are on all the time and one is blinking every three seconds. I tried my UART code by sending and receiving data from uC to PC and it worked. I also tried to display some data in different parts of my code to find a line with a bug. I think that problem is in the while loop in which I am waiting for receiving a single char from SIM808 module. I marked this line in the code (in function UART_RxChar()). I am using two UARTs in my code, one for sending data between uC and PC (channel 0 in the code) and second for sending data between uC and SIM808 (channel 1), but I checked both versions on my computer. This is my code:

#define F_OSC 7372800UL
#define BAUD 115200
#define ubrr ((F_OSC/16/BAUD)-1)
#include <avr/io.h>
#include <util/delay.h>
#include "lcd.h"

void UART_TxString(char *string_ptr, uint8_t channel);

void UART_Init( uint8_t channel )
{
    if ( channel == 0)
    {
        /*Set baud rate */
        UBRR0H = (unsigned char)(ubrr>>8);
        UBRR0L = (unsigned char)ubrr;
        /*Enable receiver and transmitter */
        UCSR0B = (1<<TXEN0) | (1<<RXEN0);
        /* Set frame format: 8data, 1stop bit */
        UCSR0C = (1<<UCSZ00) | (1<<UCSZ01);
    }
    else
    {
        /*Set baud rate */
        UBRR1H = (unsigned char)(ubrr>>8);
        UBRR1L = (unsigned char)ubrr;
        /*Enable receiver and transmitter */
        UCSR1B = (1<<TXEN1) | (1<<RXEN1);
        /* Set frame format: 8data, 1stop bit */
        UCSR1C = (1<<UCSZ10)|(1<<UCSZ11);
    }
}

char UART_RxChar( uint8_t channel )
{

    if ( channel == 0 )
    {
        while((UCSR0A & (1<<RXC0))==0);   // Wait till the data is received
        return(UDR0);                    // return the received char
    }
    else
    {
        //Here is the problem. The condition in the loop is always true.
        while((UCSR1A & (1<<RXC1))==0);   // Wait till the data is received
        return(UDR1);                    // return the received char
    }

}
void UART_TxChar(char ch, uint8_t channel)
{
    if ( channel == 0)
    {
        while((UCSR0A & (1<<UDRE0))==0); // Wait till Transmitter(UDR) register becomes Empty
        UDR0 =ch;             // Load the data to be transmitted
    }

    else
    {
        while((UCSR1A & (1<<UDRE1))==0); // Wait till Transmitter(UDR) register becomes Empty
        UDR1 =ch;             // Load the data to be transmitted
        UART_TxChar(ch,0);
    }

}
void UART_TxString(char *string_ptr, uint8_t channel)
{
    while(*string_ptr)
    UART_TxChar(*string_ptr++, channel);
}
void UART_RxString(char *string_ptr, uint8_t channel)
{
    char ch;
    while(1)
    {
        ch=UART_RxChar(channel);    //Reaceive a char
        UART_TxChar(ch, channel);     //Echo back the received char
        if((ch=='\r') || (ch=='\n')) //read till enter key is pressed
        {                          //once enter key is pressed
            *string_ptr=0;          //null terminate the string
            break;                //and break the loop
        }
        *string_ptr=ch;              //copy the char into string.
        string_ptr++;                //and increment the pointer
    }
}

int main(void)
{
    UART_Init(0);
    UART_Init(1);
    initLCD();
    UART_TxString("\r\nstart", 0);

    while(1)
    {
        char ans[15] = "";
        DDRE = 0xff;
        UART_TxString("AT\r\n",1);
        DDRE = 0x00;
        UART_RxString(ans,1);
        _delay_ms(2000);
    }
}

I also checked all possibilities sending: AT\r", "AT\n", "AT\r\n", "AT\n\r.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Answer 1

The problem is you are echoing the received character back to SIM808 module on line

UART_TxChar(ch, channel); //Echo back the received char

this may confuse SIM808 and put it in inconsistent state.

Try connecting SIM808 module to PC and use CoolTerm to analyze response after firing AT command.