dngl
Use a 3g/4g USB data dongle to log mobile network data. Works with Huawei 3g-modems e173 and e220 with somewhat recent firmware, not tested with any other.
install
npm install dngl
usage
var dngl = ;var device = "/dev/cu.HUAWEIMobile-Modem"; // put your device heredevice;device;device;
data
The data object looks like
imsi: 262075211009024imei: 865633017939267signal: -83cell:stat: 1lac: 21934cell: 12831act: nullservice:operator: '26207'mode: 2time: 328659477
imsi and imei
The International Mobile Subscriber Identity imsi
and International Mobile Equipment Identity imei
.
signal
signal
is the received signal strength in dBm; According to the spec, this is somewhere bewtween -113 (worst) and -51 (best) or -Infinity (no signal);
cell
stat
indicates the network registration status.
- 0 not registered, not searching new operator
- 1 registered, home network
- 2 not registered, searching new operator
- 3 registration denied
- 4 unknown (probably no service)
- 5 registered, roaming
- 6 registered, home network, sms only (only for lte/4g)
- 7 registered, roaming, sms only (only for lte/4g)
- 8 emergency services only
- 9 registered, home network (only for lte/4g)
- 10 registered, roaming (only for lte/4g)
(this is very brief, if interested, read the specs.)
lac
Location Area Code in decimal notation
cell
Cell ID in decimal notation
act
is the access technology (as obtained by AT+CREG?). this is optional and seems never to be provided. use service.mode
instead.
- 0 GSM
- 1 GSM Compact (this does not exist)
- 2 UTRAN (what normal people call "3g" or "UMTS")
- 3 GSM w/EGPRS (also known as EDGE)
- 4 UTRAN w/HSDPA (3g with download-booster)
- 5 UTRAN w/HSUPA (3g with upload-booster)
- 6 UTRAN w/HSDPA and HSUPA (3g with up- and download-booster)
- 7 E-UTRAN (what is known as "4g" or "LTE")
service
operator
the Mobile Country Code and Mobile Network Code tuple.
service
is the access technology (as obtained by AT+COPS?).
- 0 GSM
- 1 GSM Compact (this does not exist)
- 2 UTRAN (what normal people call "3g" or "UMTS")
- 3 GSM w/EGPRS (also known as EDGE)
- 4 UTRAN w/HSDPA (3g with download-booster)
- 5 UTRAN w/HSUPA (3g with upload-booster)
- 6 UTRAN w/HSDPA and HSUPA (3g with up- and download-booster)
- 7 E-UTRAN (what is known as "4g" or "LTE")
time
time
the current time on the clock of the SIM as a unix timestamp. be aware that this most certainly does not give you the current time.
license
contributions
contributions welcome, send pull requests. if you want your device supported, send me one.