Raspberry Pi Fona PiHat

just wanted to give an update, i recently replaced my tmobile sim with a much more reasonably priced Ting mobile card. $6 a month if i dont use it all sounds pretty good to me. Also an antenna finally :P I still use it as a drop box just as a mobile hotspot in dire situations. I plan on doing the next update when i can get a 3g version!

took lots of tinkering with ssh to get it to work but just got my reverse connection running! The Pi now boot, starts the FONA PPP connection, then does a reverse back to my local machine over the cell network. The command prompt is laggy as expected with the 2g data rate but its a worth while trade off. This Pi can now act as a pivot box or a remote recon box, next test will be to see the actual battery life with an active data connection, heres hoping the A+ pulls little enough that it lasts a good while!

got around to unsoldering the ugly random breadboard cables and used some small gauge to clean up the bottom a lot, next step will probably be a dremel to open up the SIM card area

I had a real internal debate when placing the fona: like it is trapping the SIM on the bottom, or sim side up which didn't give all the pretty blinking lights.

Thinking now I might disassemble and cut a hole in the HAT giving access to the SIM slot then run some smaller gauge neater wire to pretty it u

Seems to work pretty good so far, can charge the battery while using or run on battery alone. Currently setting up a script to email its current IP on the FONA so it can be dropped and act as a Pivot box.