[SOLVED] Receiving CONNECT FAIL in Serial Monitor

IoT Devices
,
1

Hello all.

I am so close to getting it all to work, the DS18B20 digital thermometer, to Uno/Fona GSM, and off to Ubidots. I have now been able to get the sketch to compile, with help from support at Adafruit. But when I load the code onto the Uno, I watched the Serial Monitor, and everything was going along fine, until it was time ‘to send data to remote server’, and I received a NNECT Fail. This is getting into waters that I have almost zero knowledge in, so any help would be appreciated.
Everything is classed as “OK” in the Serial monitor, it is only when it gets to the ‘sending data’ part that I am having a problem. Here is the snag:
Begin to send data to remote server: NNECT FAIL
NNECT FAIL
NNECT FAIL
ENEECT FAIL
ERRNNECT FAIL
ERROR

Thanx in advance. Jack

2

Hi @jackson58 it seems that the FONA is not being able to connect to the Internet at all. Try running the Adafruit native example (“FONAtest”), select “[G] Enable GPRS” then “[w] Read webpage (GPRS)” and check the output.

This should help us make sure you’re being able to enable GPRS, connect to your mobile operator’s APN, and have an Internet connection to see the Web, hence be able to make request to external sites like Ubidots. Let us know the output.

3

This question has been marked as solved here.

Btw, don’t forget to check out the new Ubidots-FONA library.