How To Get MAC Address of Arduino or GSM Shield?

Projects Programming
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I am using an Uno and Mega 2560. I am also using the official GSM shield.

Is it possible to extract the MAC address of the Arduino and/or the MAC address of the GSM shield? If so, how do I do that?

Thank you in advance.

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It doesn't look as if this is possible

The library doesnt have a function for it, and if you look in the AT command set for the module that the sheild uses, I can't see anything about mac address

I think this is the doc for the commands

http://www.acmesystems.it/datasheets/GSM_ATC_AN_V1.1.pdf

but you'd need to double check.

BTW. You are better of posting to the networking board on this forum not the programmming one

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Is it possible to extract the MAC address of the Arduino

The Arduino doesn't have a MAC address.

and/or the MAC address of the GSM shield?

No.

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@paulS

I presumed he meant the GSM module :wink:

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I think that only ethernet devices have a mac address.

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michinyon:
I think that only ethernet devices have a mac address.

Many different types of network interfaces use the same concept of a MAC address. They are not interchangeable in the sense that you can't use a WiFi MAC address as an Ethernet MAC address, but they are conceptually equivalent in that they represent a physical layer interface to a network.

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Thank you everyone for your replies.

In the end, to solve that problem, I used IMEI instead. :slight_smile: