SARA-G3 and SARA-U2 series - System Integration Manual
UBX-13000995 - R26
System description
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RI signal behavior
The
RI
module output line is set by default to the OFF state (high level) at UART initialization. Then, during an
incoming call, the
RI
line is switched from the OFF state to the ON state with a 4:1 duty cycle and a 5 second
period (ON for 1 s, OFF for 4 s, see Figure 26), until the DTE attached to the module sends the ATA string and
the module accepts the incoming data call. The RING string sent by the module (DCE) to the serial port at
constant time intervals is not correlated with the switch of the
RI
line to the ON state.
Figure 26: RI behavior during an incoming call
The
RI
line can notify an SMS arrival. When the SMS arrives, the
RI
line switches from OFF to ON for 1 second
(see Figure 27), if the feature is enabled by the AT+CNMI command (see the
u-blox AT Commands Manual
Figure 27: RI behavior at SMS arrival
This behavior allows the DTE to stay in power saving mode until the DCE related event requests service.
For SMS arrival, if several events coincidently occur or in quick succession each event independently triggers the
RI
line, although the line will not be deactivated between each event. As a result, the
RI
line may stay to ON for
more than 1 s.
If an incoming call is answered within less than 1 second (with ATA or if auto-answering is set to ATS0=1) than
the
RI
line is set to OFF earlier.
As a result:
RI
line monitoring cannot be used by the DTE to determine the number of received SMSes.
For multiple events (incoming call plus SMS received), the
RI
line cannot be used to discriminate the two
events, but the DTE must rely on the subsequent URCs and interrogate the DCE with proper commands.
The
RI
line can additionally notify all the URCs and all the incoming data (PPP, Direct Link, sockets, FTP), if the
feature is enabled by the AT+URING command (for more details, see the
u-blox AT Commands Manual
[3]): the
RI
line is asserted when one of the configured events occur and it remains asserted for 1 second unless another
configured event will happen, with the same behavior described in Figure 27.
The AT+URING command for the notification of all the URCs and all the incoming data (PPP, Direct Link,
sockets, FTP) over the
RI
line output is not supported by SARA-G3 modules.
SMS arrives
time [s]
0
RI ON
RI OFF
1s
SMS
time [s]
0
RI ON
RI OFF
1s
1s
time [s]
15
10
5
0
RI ON
RI OFF
Call incomes
1s
time [s]
15
10
5
0
RI ON
RI OFF
Call incomes
