usim800
usim800 is a Python driver module for SIM800 GSM/GPRS . Its has easy-to-use api to access GPRS and to send sms .
Support
- raspberry pi
- Tested on python 3 with orange pi zero and linux machine using (usb to ttl) .
Features
Send Get and post requests(supports HTTP/1.1).
requests API similar to pythons Requests module.
Send SMS
Installation
> pip install usim800
Quick start :
Import
>>> from usim800 import sim800
>>> import json
>>> gsm = sim800(baudrate=9600,path="/dev/ttyUSB3")
set APN
>>> gsm.requests.APN = "www"
get and post request
>>> gsm.requests.get(url="http://my-json-server.typicode.com/typicode/demo/posts")
>>> r = gsm.requests
>>> r.status_code
'200'
>>> r.content
b'[ { "id": 1, "title": "Post 1" }, { "id": 2, "title": "Post 2" }, { "id": 3, "title": "Post 3" }]'
>>> r.json()
[[{'id': 1, 'title': 'Post 1'}, {'id': 2, 'title': 'Post 2'}, {'id': 3, 'title': 'Post 3'}]]
>>> r.IP
'10.110.188.15'
>>> data = {"name":"somthing...."}
>>> gsm.requests.post(url="http://ptsv2.com/t/usim800/post",data=json.dumps(data))
'201'
>>> r.status_code
'201'
>>> r.content
b'Thank you for this dump. I hope you have a lovely day!'
>>> r.IP
'10.182.199.208'
SMS
>>> gsm.sms.send("8850813167","hi from usim800")
True
Future Plan and improvements
- better error handling
- read sms