How/where to enroll new P-L496-CELL02 development kit (see detail below)?

[KMurp.290]

Hello -

I recently acquired a new P-L496G-CELL02 development kit to evaluate cellular communication performance. Out of the box, when I first plug in the P-L496G-CELL02 development kit to my PC and open a terminal, it instructs me to "open a web browser and go to http://www.stm32-c2c.com". When I go to the http://www.stm32-c2c.com domain, its page says "The stm32.c2c.com web page to enroll P-L496-CELL02 is now moved to STMicroelectronics www.st.com. Please click here, to get more information." I have been unable to to find any page on the st.com domain for enrolling the P-L496-CELL02. So unfortunately I am stuck on step #1 with getting this demo running out of the box.

Please help. Thank you.

Regards,

Kevin

[Ronan GABOU]

Hello,

The stm32.c2c.com was mainly used to register the eSIM.

To achieve this use this URL : https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/p-l496g-cell02.html#resource

and read/apply the following utility:

How to enable SIM MFF2 connectivity with P-L496G-CELL02

So at the end your eSIM will be activated so you can connect to cellular network.

Then you can use : https://www.st.com/en/embedded-software/x-cube-cellular.html

to get the cellular SW with examples.

Regards, Ronan,

[egoltzman]

Hello,

I have this same board (P-L496G-CELL02) and I'm straggling for hours to try to start work with it and the X-CUBE-CELLULAR.

There is several getting started documents, non of them worked for me, the last thing I tried was your instruction above, I loaded l496_bg96_socket_v510.bin to the board as instructed by the "How to enable SIM MFF2 connectivity with P-L496G-CELL02" document and follow the steps, I faild to continue after issueing step 6 (See attached document and log.

Can you please advise?

Thanks

[egoltzman]

And this is the instruction doc

[egoltzman]

Hello Ronan,

Can you please look at my question below and see if you can help?

Thanks

[Ronan GABOU]

Hello,

Please could you try to reboot the board and wait longer.

If there is still an issue can you provide the complete log.

Be sure at boot embedded SIM is selected.

In this topic you want to activate the eSIM on the BG96 STMod+ board, exact ?

I also got an email you sent to ST FAE.

Because in your email you stated modem FW update, not the same

Here is the MCU Wiki for cellular:

https://wiki.st.com/stm32mcu/wiki/Cellular_LTE_CatM_/_NBIoT_overview

Ronan,

[egoltzman]

Hello Ronan,

Sorry for late response.

I refer to this topic as indeed I was not able to activate the eSIM, but after I got your response and waited longer the connection was establish successfully.

So this issue is resolved at the moment and now I can continue with trying to run the MQTT demo, I want to try and to test it with the AWS IOT cloud, any input you can give me on that? I have experience with ST MCU to AWS IOT MQTT with other connection type s(Ethernet and WiFi)

You mention the question I asked my FAE about the modem FW update, I indeed tried this with no luck, any input you can give me on that? Link?

Thanks,

Eyal

[Ronan GABOU]

Hello Eyal,

Good to know 🙂

For AWS, I am not aware, as it is not included into X-CUBE-CELLULAR. Did you check X-CUBE-AWS ?

To flash BG96 you can find information in the X-CUBE-CELLULAR zip at the following location:

Utilities\Modem_FW\BG96\Pack_BG96MAR02A08M1G_01.012.01.012.zip

Ronan,

[egoltzman]

Thanks Ronan,

I tried this procedure again today and I have a problem to follow the "How to flasf BG96 FW on STMod+ board", the first download link is working and I can access the USB driver but the second download of the flasher tool is broken:

Actually this is the reason I talked a while ago with my FAE about the FW update of the module.

Can you advise?

Thanks,

Eyal

[Ronan GABOU]

Hello Eyal,

You're right. Quectel delete or move the tool.

We are going to contact them to reestablish the link.

I will let you know when available.

Ronan,