Auto start of packet forwarder?

Setup and configuration
1

Hello,

I want to automate the launch of the lora packet forwarder.
Do you know how I can do ?
I use the pkt fwd of semtech : https://github.com/Lora-net/packet_forwarder
And I must manually start them with :

cd /root/packet_forwarder/lora_pkt_fwd/
./lora_pkt_fwd

All is working from the node to my database, juste need to autostart the pkt fwd.

Thanks for the great tutorial at loraserver.io !

2

It’s no relevant to open this issues here, please opening an issue at https://github.com/Lora-net/packet_forwarder/issues

Or you can search about rc.local

3

Note sure if this is not relevant :slight_smile: In the end @Fab45 wants to have a working LoRa Server setup, which includes a working gateway.

However this question is quite basic and is also depended on the used OS so more information is needed in order to answer it.

4

Hello,

Sorry, I’m on Raspberrypi (raspbian / debian).
I found it’s possible to use systemctl to make a service but it seem to not working. Probably I’m wrong somewhere…

Systemctl is the best way ?

5

For example you can add to rc.local before exit 0:

/home/pi/packet_forwarder/lora_pkt_fwd/lora_pkt_fwd &

So it will look something like this:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

# Print the IP address
_IP=$(hostname -I) || true
if [ "$_IP" ]; then
  printf "My IP address is %s\n" "$_IP"
fi

/home/pi/packet_forwarder/lora_pkt_fwd/lora_pkt_fwd  &

exit 0
6

This could be an example of a .service file: https://github.com/brocaar/loraserver-pi-gen/blob/loraserver/stage3/02-packet-forwarder/files/packet-forwarder.service

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7

Thanks for the example, it works !
I just need to understand how I can execute a script if the service fail to start. Sometime I need to execute a script which reset the LoRa module, if don’t do this, service can’t start…

EDIT : I just see on your github they have a start script which take care about this reset pin. Haven’t this on the repo I used. I will look this way.

8

I copied the “start.sh” script in my directory, I also copied the .service from your link and everything seems to work !

thanks a lot !