Raspberry Pi + 3G (vodafone)

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patrickdavey

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#166207 5-Mar-2015 22:11

Hi there,

I was wondering if anyone here has experience connecting a raspberry pi (or linux flavour) to the vodafone network. I am thinking of buying one of these: http://www.vodafone.co.nz/shop/mobileDetails.jsp?skuId=sku500386 (a vodafone prepay dongle) so that I can put my raspberry pi somewhere with cellular coverage and upload photos periodically over 3G data.

Any advice / suggestions would be most welcome!

Thanks,
Patrick

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Killerkiwi2005

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#1256929 12-Mar-2015 11:16

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/07/3g-internet-on-raspberry-pi-success/

richms

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#1257290 12-Mar-2015 16:07

It was a case of a setting on the hotspot and plugging it in, then an ifup command on its interface name

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#1261064 17-Mar-2015 13:58

Richard. Would you like to create this for money? I can supply the hotspot ...

Killerkiwi2005

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#1261134 17-Mar-2015 15:29

since you have a rpi I'd use python3, a bit easier to learn then curl

import urllib
import http.cookiejar
cookieJar = http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar("jar.cookies")
url = "http://127.0.0.1"

encodedPost = urllib.parse.urlencode({'email': email, 'password': password}).encode('utf-8')
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookieJar))
request = urllib.request.Request(url, encodedPost, headers)
response = opener.open(request)
html = response.read().decode()