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Today, I managed to read the server response......before the socket closed.

When I tried to send to the following to www.google.com   'GET /search?q=arduino HTTP/1.0’ or even just 'GET / HTTP/1.1'

I got back the following.....

+SSTR:1,HTTP/1.0 400 Bad request
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain
Date: Wed Nov 2 :: 1eeeetodobudto as4

Now, though SoftwareSerial will be too slow to keep up with the Sm5100B [9600 is tooo slow], this error says I need to go read http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html and see what I'm doing wrong.....

I'll go again, and try to clean it up.....

Eamonn

I just did a HTTP GET with the SIM900 GPRS shield and OKG, so I'll try to do a POST tomorrow and get some emoncms.org feeds updated. 

Eamonn

I can post the word HELLO to emoncms.org and I get an OK back..... But not when I try to post http://emoncms.org/api/post?apikey=MYAPIKEY&json={power:274} for some reason.

I think I have the syntax worked out for the SIM900 but need to know if I should be sending the whole URL to emoncms or just part of it .

log from tonight:

AT+HTTPPARA="CID",1

OK
AT+HTTPPARA="URL","emoncms.org/api/post?"

OK
AT+HTTPDATA=56,20000

DOWNLOAD

-THEN I enter "apikey=MYAPIKEY&json={power:274}"

and get an error.

However, if I just enter HELLO [ having specified AT+HTTPDATA=5,20000 above beforehand, I get the following type of response which looks good.

OK                (then I ented the AT+HTTPACTION=1 below)
AT+HTTPACTION=1  (and it returns the following, showing the HTTP 200 response)

+HTTPACTION:1,200,424

it'll be Wednesday evening before I get another shot.....

Eamonn

Hi Guys,

I also like the idea of using 3G.

Using Wr703n router from TP-LInk that supports ethernet, wifi and 3G (3G with addition of 3G dongle). This cost about 16€ on ebay, comes in Chinese. You've then two choices use in Chinese ( using google translater or cheat sheet available on google search) alternatively  reflash with openwrt and have full control. I've tended towards later. The wifi works great with emonbase and Raspberry Pi, however I've found 3G hit and mis at first, but I have two emonbases working for a month ok  without having to be powercycled.

Additional note the emonbase multimode saved me a fortune by lowering bandwidth costs and also made it more reliable.

I'm now tending towards Raspberry Pi and will test 3G as soon as cable arrives (USB 2.0 Female to Dual USB A Male Power Y Cable), reason Pi doesn't have enough power to keep 3G dongle powered on its USB. Great work above guys it would be great to have a robust 3G solution.

Cheers

Peter

Thanks for that. nice looking option! 

Eamonn

log file from this mornings test ; no joy yet but I will stay knocking on this door until it  opens :-)

Eamonn

sim900 update ; well more questions really...

Merrry Christmas! Maybe I'm a bit early, but an music gig on TV was interrupted by my wife putting on a Christas CD last Saturday, so I know we've arrived :-)

I've bolded the sim900 command/response below

 Would anyone be able to tell me if this should work. i.e. would it be valid in terms of emoncms[ maybe it's a Trystan Q] but I'll throw it out there.

I need to enter http param specifying the URL, but seem to be constrained w.r.t. length. i.e. if I specify the following it doesn't work .... I'm not sure what the maximum length can be for http paramvalue

AT+HTTPPARA="URL","http://emoncms.org/api/post?apikey=MYAPIKEY&json={power:274}"

It returns an error [lit... ERROR] because the string is too long

I got a 200 [OK] response from emoncms.org with the following but don't see any update on my inputs .....

Step 1: URL as follows...... AT+HTTPPARA="URL","http://emoncms.org/api/post.php"

Step 2: pass in apikey=MYAPIKEY&json={E:2} using

AT+HTTPDATA=50,20000   // so my string is 50bytes long, please give me 20 seconds to get it sent

When I get the DOWNLOAD prompt, I enter apikey=MYAPIKEY&json={E:2} and get the 200 response as follows

+HTTPACTION:1,200,0

Note, I used E:2 because 50 seems to be the max length!; i.e power:273 etc throws back errors.. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.2.2 does allow for ? in the http URL so I think it's just a length issue....i.e. I should be able to pass in http://emoncms.org/api/post? as the URL.... this doesn't work though. Might be down to simcom's tcpip implementation.

Eamonn.

Greetings all, I'm in the same project described here. That is, I need to send energy data via a GPRS module SIM900. If anyone can help me with information ....

Currently I have error when executing the command AT + HTTPINIT (boot a "mistake" as retoro). And do not get conctarme with emoncms server. Any help is good.

Thank you..!

José, really not sure. I haven't tried this in a while. I spent months working on it but the results were not consistent.

I used a tool called 'Terminal' https://sites.google.com/site/terminalbpp/ to test out the commands. Have you tried this? 

Eamonn