I started looking into LoRa last week and currently looking to connect one 8-channel gateway with 20 nodes without using The Things Network. I have looked into LoRaServer as well and I would like to know if there is a quick start guide with LoRaServer using which we can hold communication between node and 8-channel gateway? Or is there any code example which enables communication between node and gateway (or client and server) without using TTN?
If not, I believe I might have to code something similar to the following: https://github.com/dragino/rpi-lora-tranceiver/blob/master/dragino_lora_app/main.c such that my code should contain 8-channels instead of one. Would following the aforementioned script be a good idea? Any guidance/information would be highly appreciated!
Please see https://www.loraserver.io/lora-gateway-os/overview/, altough this still the first test-release, I believe it is the easiest way to get started There is also an image which comes with all the LoRa Server components pre-installed on the gateway.
Thank you for the reply and the link. I understand from reading that the packet forwarder will be pre-installed within lora-gateway-os-full and I would not have to worry about scripting from scratch which is pretty neat. However, I have two questions:
Does LoRaServer has any airtime or number of messages per day policy/limitations? I tried to look it up but have been unable to find any such information.
Since I am still learning, I have been wondering if this gateway would be able to receive messages from any node as long as the SF and frequency matches? My nodes are Raspberry Pi 3B+ + LoRa GPS Hat that sends a 200 byte message every minute. I was wondering if there would be any issues?
I’m following the same maze i think. Between node and gateway you don’t need TTN i think, but you need some servers to connect your node (client) to. I stumbled upon this one : https://github.com/dudmuck/LoRaWAN-Backend, maybe something to look at. Maybe I point you in the wrong direction, but it helped me.
After flashing the SD card, you login run “sudo gateway-config” and you configure your iC880a shield. The only thing you need to know is GPIO which is connected to the iC880a reset.
When you flash the “-full” image, it already comes with all the ChirpStack components installed