Serial LTE Modem

The Serial LTE Modem sample is extremely handy when you already have an application that you want to add LTE and/or GPS to. Here are the steps for setting things up:

You can find this sample in ncs/nrf/applications/serial_lte_modem. So let's change directories there and make some modifications.
Add these lines to your prj.conf. This adds bootloader functionality so it can be loaded using newtmgr
```
# Enable Zephyr application to be booted by MCUboot
CONFIG_BOOTLOADER_MCUBOOT=y
```

You'll also have to enable UART2 and disable UART0. Make your Application-specific look like this one:

# Application-specific
CONFIG_SLM_LOG_LEVEL_INF=y
# Enable GPIO wakeup if sleep is expected
#CONFIG_SLM_GPIO_WAKEUP=y
# Use UART_0 (when working with PC terminal)
# CONFIG_UART_0_NRF_HW_ASYNC_TIMER=2
# Use UART_2 (when working with external MCU)
CONFIG_SLM_CONNECT_UART_2=y
CONFIG_UART_2_NRF_HW_ASYNC_TIMER=2
# Use optional TCP/TLS Proxy
#CONFIG_SLM_TCP_PROXY=y
# Use optional UDP/DTLS Proxy
#CONFIG_SLM_UDP_PROXY=y

You will also have to create a folder call boards. In that folder create a file called circuitdojo_feather_nrf9160ns.overlay In this overlay file, we'll redirect the AT interface to UART2 for use with an external microcontroller:
```
&uart2 {
    compatible = "nordic,nrf-uarte";
    current-speed = <115200>;
    status = "okay";
    tx-pin = <24>;
    rx-pin = <23>;
    rts-pin = <29>;
    cts-pin = <30>;
};
```
Note: it's very important that your overlay file ends in .overlay or you will get compilation errors.
When you're done, here's what it should look like:
From the serial_lte_modem folder, compile the example using
```
west build -b circuitdojo_feather_nrf9160ns
```
Note: having trouble building? Make sure you check out the troubleshooting page.

Flash the example using newtmgr:

newtmgr -c serial image upload build/zephyr/app_update.bin

Running the app, you should see the boot message if you open LTE Link Monitor with Flow Control turned off:

*** Booting Zephyr OS build v2.3.0-rc1-ncs1-2410-g7d20f2ebf259
***[00:00:00.207,794] [0m<inf> app: Serial LTE Modem[0m

Finally, connect your external MCU. Here's the pinout defintion. Remember you'll need to connect the opposite pins on your mating MCU. (TX->RX, RX->TX, CTS->RTS, RTS->CTS)

Pin	Pin #
Tx	Tx
Rx	Rx
Cts	D3
Rts	D2

You now should be able to send over an AT and get the response OK. Remember to enable flow control on your external MCU as well!!

For more information on this application, see Nordic's documentation.

Firmware download: here's a binary image of the example above running NCS version bb259bfad1fa3572563444edb512fc8a6f12a3f4: download

Product Documentation

Serial LTE Modem