Is there any way to catch the response of SIM800L after sending the at command?

Question

I am using sim 800l with arduino. I am successfully sending AT command from arduino, not in serial monitor but I am unable to catch the response after each successful command execution if its ok or not. I want to do that because, if there is an error in a certain command the next command will not be executed unless its successful. Can you tell me is there any way to do so?

Answer 1

for a polling serial read I use this method :

bool tSim8_sendCommand(uint8_t sim_cmd[])
{
    uint8_t simOK[2] = {0}, i=20;
    tSoftSerial1_write(sim_cmd);
    tSoftSerial1_write("\r\n");
    while (i--)
    {
        simOK[0] = simOK[1];
        simOK[1] = tSoftSerial1_readChar();
        if(simOK[0] == 'O' || simOK[1] =='K')
        {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

the variable i i the while loop, is used just for retries, so the program doesn't get trapped in an infinite loop. the code is self-explanatory. the incoming characters are "pushed" into an array till the array reads "OK".

for a non-blocking one, it's a bit complicated as you have to define state-machines and concurret loops. here is a method I use for finding out if the last transmission was OK:

void tsim_phase_ok_routine(uint8_t inChar)
{
    if(tsim_aux_buff[0] == 'O' && tsim_aux_buff[1] =='K' && tsim_aux_buff[2] =='\r')    
    {
        tsim_status_flag |= (1<<PHASE_OK);
        tsim_status_flag &=~(1<<PHASE_CON_ERR);
        return;
    }
    else    
    {
        tsim_aux_buff[0] = tsim_aux_buff[1];
        tsim_aux_buff[1] = tsim_aux_buff[2];
        tsim_aux_buff[2] = inChar;
        err_timeout--;
    }
    if(!(tsim_status_flag & (1<<PHASE_OK)) && !err_timeout)
    {
        tsim_status_flag &=~(1<<PHASE_OK);
        tsim_status_flag |= (1<<PHASE_CON_ERR);
    }
}

I define "PHASES" to find out which phase is sim800 in. the whole function would be written in RX interrupt service routine and the input character would be fed to it.