Hello Harald,

Thank you for your response and apologies for the delay in mine. I am balancing this project amongst other customer facing workloads.

I have now been able to successfully use cardem-pcsc with the ST2 board to access a SIM hosted by a generic card reader.

My US based colleague and I will be continuing our test of the remote/server-based configuration this week.

I have primarily been using the wiki entry https://osmocom.org/projects/simtrace2/wiki/Cardem during this process. We are noticing a few discrepancies between the documented process here and our real-world experience (the re-naming of '-remsim' to 'cardem-pcsc' being one example). 

We will happily share our experience and contribute our findings. Would it be appropriate to bring these to yourself in reply to this thread, or is there a preferred method for contributing findings?

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From: Harald Welte <laforge@osmocom.org>
Sent: 16 March 2022 16:35
To: Marc Wilson <mwilson@eseye.com>
Cc: simtrace@lists.osmocom.org <simtrace@lists.osmocom.org>
Subject: Re: Simtrace2 Projects
 
Hi Marc,

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 01:29:38PM +0000, Marc Wilson wrote:
> I have not been able to locate/install the SIMTrrace2-remsim application. Whilst I have SIMTrace2 itself installed and functional there is no reference to the remsim function.
>
> I am using binaries from the Raspbian 11 repo.

from which repo? network:osmocom:latest or network:osmocom:nightly?

> The related wiki indicates that remsim would be part of the SIMTrace2 installation (albiet referencing the method of compiling locally). However, I find no reference to it in my standard installation.

We need to differentiate two separate programs here:

* osmo-remsim (comprehensive software for managing deployments of many remote sim devices). It
  doesn't really have any dependency to simtrace2 but can be used with it.

* the very simplistic 'local remsim' example program packaged with simtrace2 host utilities,
  now called 'simtrace2-cardem-pcsc' to avoid naming conflicts

See the following commit:

commit b1a56e0f77ecdc7bb17357f2dff8dac370576a25
Author: Harald Welte <laforge@osmocom.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 27 15:44:54 2020 +0100

    rename simtrace2-remsim to simtrace2-cardem-pcsc

    This renaming is to avoid any confusion with the osmo-remsim
    project, living in its separate git repository.

    The simtrace2-cardem-pcsc doesn't feature any 'remote' part.  Rather,
    it emulates the SIM card interface towards the device/phone/modem,
    and forwards it to a local PC/SC card reader.

    Change-Id: Ic15f0a89964a72fe3ab7a5145a073720f6207e24


which is part of simtrace2 >= 0.8.0

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