While Huawei provides status information for its HiLink modems via a web page, this is hardly useful when using the modem on a headless Linux server. I just published a small Python-based command-line tool on Github which displays some useful information about the modem’s status.

root@wopr~#: python ./hstatus.py
Huawei E3372 LTE Modem (IMEI: 121032526613216)
 Hardware version: CL1D3271AM Ver.A
 Software version: 22.286.53.01.161
 Web UI version: 16.100.05.00.03-Mod1.4
 Serial: L8FDW11512114431
 MAC address (modem): 00:0D:87:12:1C:1D
 Connection status: Connected
   Network type: UMTS (3G)
   Signal level: ▁▃▄▆█
   Roaming: Enabled
   Modem WAN IP address: 10.197.75.231
   Public IP address: 185.13.106.181
   DNS IP addresses: 212.113.0.5, 66.28.0.62
   Network operator: Swisscom
   Connected for: 03:15:15 (hh:mm:ss)
   Downloaded: 615.17 KB
   Uploaded: 258.69 KB
 Total downloaded: 14.69 MB
 Total uploaded: 1.34 MB
 Unread SMS: 1

The tool has been tested on a Huawei E3276 and a E3372 modem. For the newer E3372 modem I had to add some code to supply a RequestVerificationToken in the HTTP header.

Feel free to send a pull request on Github with your own tweaks!

The repository is available here: github.com/trick77/huawei-hilink-status