Telit WL865E4-P Evaluation Board User Guide

June 6, 2024
Telit

WL865E4-P Evaluation Board
Quick Start Guide

This Quick Start Guide will walk you through the easy steps required to set up and run the WL865E4-P evaluation board for the Serial-to-Wireless application.

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Your kit contains the following:

  • 1- Quick Start Guide (this document)
  • 1- WL865E4-P Evaluation Board (Picture1 or Picture2)
  • 1- Micro-USB Cable
  • 1- External Antenna
  • For more information on PIN details and description of individual boards refer “WL865E4-P EVB User Guide”

1a Configure the WL865E4-P module
4 Step Download the Telit AT Controller (TATC) serial interface tool from the following link: https://www.telit.com/evkevb-drivers/ and place it on your desktop.

Run the WL865E4-P module

Alert! Before you begin, ensure that the ON/OFF switch is in OFF position and PL603 jumper is OPEN.
1 Step Plug the micro-USB cable, one end of the USB port to WL865E4-P Evaluation board and the other end of the USB port to your PC or laptop.
2 Step Turn the power switch to ON position. Once the connection is established the Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 driver will be automatically installed onto your PC.
3 Step Go to Control Panel > Device Manager and check the COM port number.

  1. Configure the WL865E4-P module
    Step 4 Download the Telit AT Controller (TATC) serial interface tool from the following link: https://www.telit.com/evkevb-drivers/ and place it on your desktop.
    5 Step Unzip the folder and run
    Setup_TATC_3.4.11_XFP_4.0.5.msi file.
    Upon successful software installation, following files will be created on your desktop:
    • Telit AT Controller.Ink
    • Xfp.Ink
    6 Step Double-click on Telit AT Controller icon to open the application.
    Step 7 Click Settings >Port Settings to setup the AT port parameters such as:
    COM Port
    Baud Rate
    Parity
    Data Bits
    Start Bits
    Flow Control, and click OK.
    8 Step Upon successful configuration, click Connect.
    Step 8 Upon successful configuration, click Connect.
    The module information such as: MAC Address,
    Manufacturer Name, Model Number, Fw Release version will be displayed.
    Step 9 Now, click AT Terminal to start the AT Terminal window.
    Note: WL865E4 S2W Firmware supports two styles of AT commands:

Legacy (GS2K Style)
New (Telit Style)
By default, the firmware supports legacy (GS2K Style) AT Command mode for backward compatibility with GS2K based Wi-Fi module.
10 Step Issue the following commands, to verify the version
AT+YLC=0
AT+YVER

Wireless Operations

The following use cases describes the wireless operations of the WL865E4-P module using legacy and New AT commands. The WL865E4-P module supports two modes of operations:

  • Station Mode
  • Limited AP Mode

Note: In legacy AT command mode, both command and responses will be similar to GS2K module platform whereas in New AT command mode, the commands and their responses will be different.

  1. Use Case 1: Configure WL865E4-P module using Legacy Commands
    Station Mode
    Following commands are used to configure the WL865E4-P module in station mode.
    AT+WM=0
    AT+NMAC=?
    AT+WWPA=abcd1234
    AT+NDHCP=1
    AT+WA=Telit_test
    AT+NSTAT=?
    Limited AP Mode
    Following commands are used to configure the WL865E4-P module in WPA2 Secured Limited AP mode.
    Where,
    • Module’s SSID is: Telit_LAP and,
    • IP Address is: 192.168.45.3
    AT+WM=2
    AT+NSET=192.168.8.1,255.255.255.0,192.168.8.1
    AT+WA=Telit_LAP,,6
    AT+DHCPSRVR=1 AT+NSTAT=?

    Note: For more information regarding Legacy AT Commands, refer to WL865E4-P Legacy Command Reference Guide.
    The `Telit_LAP’ appears in the Scan List of Wi-Fi Settings of your laptop or PC. Check the accessibility of the connected network by pinging to it from the laptop.

  2. Use Case 2: Configure WL865E4-P module using New AT Commands
    To switch to New AT Command mode, issue the following command. AT+YLC=0
    Station Mode
    Following commands are used to configure the WL865E4-P module in Station Mode and associate to WPA2 Secured Wi-Fi Network.
    Where,
    • Module’s SSID is: Telit_test and,
    • Passphrase is: abcd1234
    AT+WNI=0
    AT+WNCN=1,”Telit_test”,”abcd_1234″
    Limited AP Mode
    Following commands are used to configure the
    WL865E4-P module in WPA Secured Limited AP mode.
    Where,
    • Module’s SSID is: Telit_LAP and,
    • IP Address is:192.168.45.3
    AT+WNI=1
    AT+WNIPC=0,1,192.168.45.3,255.255.255.0,192.168.45.1
    AT+WNAPIPC=0,192.168.45.4,192.168.45.10,10000
    AT+WNCR=0,”Telit_LAP”,6,”WPA”,”TKIP”,”12345678″
    The ‘Telit_LAP’ appears in the Scan List of Wi-Fi Settings of your laptop or PC.
    Note: For more information regarding New AT Commands, refer to WL865E4-P AT Command Reference Guide.

Technical and Product Support

For any clarification, technical and product support, please email to Telit Technical Support at: TS-SRD@telit.com
We recommend adding “Wi-Fi” in subject of the email. For example, the subject of email can be “Wi-Fi: Association failing”, “Wi-Fi: SPI Driver Issue”.
Also, in description of your email, please provide details about the issue, product, module and use case including software firmware version, module version and type, application being used, customizations done to application, use case and issue frequency and ability to recreate it.

Information

For information, please refer to the following documents:

  • WL865E4-P AT Command Reference Guide
    • For detailed description of every New (Telit Style) AT command
  • WL865E4-P Legacy Command Reference Guide
    • For detailed description of every Legacy(GS2K Style) AT command
  • WL865E4-P Module Hardware User Guide
    • For detailed description of the hardware solutions for developing a product with Telit WL865E4-P module
  • WL865E4-P Module Programming and Protocol Reference Guide
    • For detailed description of programming Telit WL865E4-P module
  • WL865E4-P EVB User Guide

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