# Raspberry Pi 5 Notecard Cellular Connection
**URL:** https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091
**Category:** Notecarrier Pi
**Tags:** cellular-coverage
**Created:** [June 10, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091 "2025-06-10T19:04:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@David3](https://discuss.blues.com/u/David3)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/1 "2025-06-10T19:04:37Z")
I have a working trash detection program, and Wi-Fi on my Notecard works fine with the raspberry Pi 5 and Notecard. I simply cannot get it connected to cellular and to keep a connection. Please help! And yes I do have a Cell+WIFI card.
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### Author:  [@abucknall](https://discuss.blues.com/u/abucknall)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/2 "2025-06-10T19:27:13Z")
Hi @David3,
Welcome to the Blues Forums!
Can you share a little more about the problem you are experiencing? What Notecard are you using, I see you mentioned that it’s a Cell+WiFi but is it a narrowband or wideband Notecard?
What log/error messages are you seeing?
Thanks,
Alex
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### Author:  [@David3](https://discuss.blues.com/u/David3)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/3 "2025-06-10T19:43:34Z")
Hi, thanks for getting back to me. I believe have the wideband Notecard. I just need to ensure it can connect to my projects’ code and send location coordinates via cellular, with no WIFI connection 🙂
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### Author:  [@abucknall](https://discuss.blues.com/u/abucknall)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/4 "2025-06-10T19:45:30Z")
No problem! Just to confirm, do you have the external antenna connected to the Notecard? When using WiFi, the Notecard can use the onboard antenna, but for Cellular an external antenna must be used.
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### Author:  [@David3](https://discuss.blues.com/u/David3)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/5 "2025-06-10T19:46:18Z")
yes i have the antenna that came with the Notecarrier PI. I have it plugged in the “main” slot 🙂
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### Author:  [@David3](https://discuss.blues.com/u/David3)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/6 "2025-06-10T19:55:35Z")
any chance you can help?
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### Author:  [@abucknall](https://discuss.blues.com/u/abucknall)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/7 "2025-06-11T09:02:57Z")
What error messages are you seeing? Can you explain the process you are using to send your data and what Notecard APIs you are using?
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### Author:  [@David3](https://discuss.blues.com/u/David3)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/8 "2025-06-11T12:52:53Z")
Thank you for your response. I started fresh and got the card connected to the Notehub and the connection to WIFI is good but when I go to connect it to cellular it unfortunately does not want to connect. Here is the prompt I’m using: "{“req”:“card.wireless”,“mode”:“m”,“on”:true} and other prompts to try to connect it to cellular, with no progress. The antenna is connected, but I cannot get a connection. Any help would be appreciated!
David
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### Author:  [@abucknall](https://discuss.blues.com/u/abucknall)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/9 "2025-06-11T13:11:58Z")
Ok, that gives me somewhere to start!
Can you try this request instead?
`{"req": "card.wireless", "mode": "-"}`
This will reset the mode of the cellular radio. Let’s check if you have any network availability before you restrict the radio to just CAT M1. The `"on":true` property has no effect on the request.
Can you share which country you are in and that you know you are on the list of Blues Partner supported countries - [Notecard Datasheet - NOTE-MBGLN - IoT Connectivity at Blues](https://dev.blues.io/datasheets/notecard-datasheet/note-mbgln/#covered-countries)?
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### Author:  [@David3](https://discuss.blues.com/u/David3)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/10 "2025-06-11T13:33:15Z")
I am located in the USA. Heres what I get after running that request: \>\>\> {“req”: “card.wireless”, “mode”: “-”}
{
“mode”: “auto”,
“imei”: “**",
“modem”: "**\*”,
“rat”: “wifi-2.4”
},
“status”: “{modem-off}”
}
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### Author:  [@abucknall](https://discuss.blues.com/u/abucknall)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/11 "2025-06-11T14:18:46Z")
When you follow it up with:
`{"req":"hub.sync"}`
and then:
`{"req":"hub.status"}`
What is the response?
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### Author:  [@David3](https://discuss.blues.com/u/David3)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/12 "2025-06-11T14:32:23Z")
I rebooted the PI and then went from the top, first accessing the Notecard cellular, then the 2 prompts you suggested. There was no break, i did it all in a few seconds. Plz help. I checked notehub and it did not infact connect
> > > {“req”: “card.wireless”, “mode”: “-”}
> > > {
> > > “mode”: “auto”,
> > > “net”: {
> > > “imei”: “**",
> > > “modem”: "**\*”,
> > > “rat”: “wifi-2.4”
> > > },
> > > “status”: “{modem-off}”
> > > }
> > >
> > > {“req”:“hub.sync”}
> > > {}
> > >
> > > {“req”:“hub.status”}
> > > {
> > > “status”: “idle {disconnected} {idle}”
> > > }
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### Author:  [@abucknall](https://discuss.blues.com/u/abucknall)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.blues.com/t/raspberry-pi-5-notecard-cellular-connection/3091/13 "2025-06-11T17:27:47Z")
You may need to set the transport mechanism so that Cellular is prioritized over WiFi:
`{"req": "card.transport", "method": "cell" }`
and if you want to return to using both:
`{"req": "card.transport", "method": "-" }`
or
`{"req": "card.transport", "method": "wifi-cell" }`