Waveshare SIM7600G-H 4G HAT for Raspberry Pi - Unlock Mobile Connectivity and GPS!

Love your Raspberry Pi but wish it had even more connectivity akin to your mobile phone. Then the Waveshare 4G HAT is the solution for you!

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This Hat means Serious Business. This Waveshare 4G HAT has a SIM7600G-H Module onboard which enables the 4G/3G/2G communication and GNSS positioning. This module supports LTE CAT4 connection up to 150Mbps for downlink data transfer.

By the end of this guide, you will be able to send text messages and ring phones from your Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer. Furthermore, you will be to pinpoint exactly what location your device is via GPS (and then send that location data through a text message). You will also be able to send text messages (SMS) to your Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer which can then activate hardware (attached via GPIO Pins) based on the contents of the text message.

You can also run this Waveshare 4G HAT as an Internet Hotspot, providing an internet connection that you can use to access the web or send out MQTT commands but to prevent blowing up the scope of this guide any larger, that will be explored in a follow-up guide. Furthermore, correctly configured this Waveshare 4G HAT will work with an Arduino Uno Micro-Controller or even as a standalone board, but that's also another story for another guide.

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0:00 Intro
0:25 4G HAT Overview
1:01 Video Overview
1:26 What You Need
2:44 Assembly of Hardware
5:33 Software Set Up
9:45 Ring a Phone with a Raspberry Pi!
10:54 Success 1!
11:15 GPS Script
11:56 Success 2!
12:19 Human Readable GPS Script
12:50 Success 3!
13:19 GPS Data Sent as Text Script
14:26 Success 4!
15:00 GPIO Control Via SMS Script
17:01 Success 5!
17:40 Outro

[jay.instro.]

This tutorial was exceptional. The presenter, the instructions, A+ guys. Never had an install go so smoothly

[KlausWulfenbach]

Kid: "Daddy, I want an iPhone!"
Dad: "We already have an iPhone at home"
The iPhone at home:

[nurfarishashoeid]

I like his explanation and reaction whenever the code is work.

[othytou]

2 years after you published this tuto, it stil help people thank you ❤

[minepro]

You've covered every functionality of the hat even a GSM module could do, except the most important one, the dial-up. Why get a 4G LTE hat if you're not gonna use the internet anyway?

[larsmielke]

Nice video, however as some comments already pointed out, sms seems to be a bit 90is. What I would like to do is to use a cloud server to connect to the raspberry via ssh tunnel.

[saeidkai]

Dude You Are A LEGEND! Thanks from Canada!

[paulfirestorm]

This tutorial is great. I was thinking if and how I can use the waveshare for internet to stream camera feeds from a surveillance system connected to the pi? Maybe you can direct me to a tutorial that covers that topic? I'm off grid but have phone service

[bearodyssey]

i want to be grow up and be like this guy.

[aniruddhakulkarni]

Great Video! The presenter has a knack for explaining stuff clearly and I can tell it has come from experience. I had a small question. Is it possible to make REST API calls with the setup? I feel the LAT & LONG values could be sent to google and the location data received in HTTP response can be sent as an SMS to further improve human readability. Please let me know if you anyone has tried this. Thanks :)

[KNTK]

Now next content :) : 2 x 4g sim card, Pi runing as bonding router 2x VPN + cloud service as reciver this 2 vpn's :) . If that is cooked we have nice setup for IRL streaming :) . Great tutorial . Subscribed.

[TBL_stevennelson]

I was hoping to see you use the mic and head phones.
I liked your project.
If you could turn it in to a futuristic home communications hud.
Mount it on your wall and make phone calls, use speech to text sms, Video calls
And build an app that you can send commands from, like the Leds example and tracking.
Making it as good as the old style home telephones but with all the New technology.

[danjames]

Love the shop and love the content! Great stuff thanks for posting.

[VolumetricPrinter]

Would this also be difficult to set up just for general internet connectivity on the Pi? I was thinking of a remote 4g camera project to live stream footage of my property.

[Gerald-izmv]

What is the diff to SIM7600G-H R2? What sim card do you use?

[crazypict]

Great video. I have today ordered one of these. I can't wait until I can test it. I like to hack my car CAN network so that I can control the diesel heater, the fan and the temperature in the car. It can be a really nice project.

[KlausWulfenbach]

All the important parts of a smartphone and I just need to put it together myself? I need one of these!

[Cyberpunk]

Wow... 🚀 That's is absolutely great!

[leergut]

That Hat is great, but for the love of god, DO NOT use it with an IoT SIM. I tried to use it with the Hologram IoT SIM shown in the video and i spent the last 4 days pulling my hair out trying to get a stable internet connection! Inserted a normal SIM (for smartphones) instead, and it worked no problem. You only have to set the Pin (if the card has one) in the modem settings (AT+CPIN)

[Maxspert]

Briliant tutorial!!I have a question, there is any way to connect with a laptop o similar to the raspberry and stream data life from it?Make like a connection and control live the raspberry and anything attached to it?