found some rotary’s and some nice big, but low, rotary knobs
I know I’m replying to a rather old message, but thought I add this in if someone else was having trouble getting lower power use out of the BSFrance Lora32u4 II
After struggling to get anything below 200 mA, found the Arduino IDE board library provided by DiYMall must have been wrong or old. Downloaded one from BSFrance website with much better success with LowPower lib. There may be hope to use it as a battery powered node after all.
Waiting on a new multimeter to get more accurate results.
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thanx I will try 
(can you meassure it powered from a battery/lipo) so including the dc/dc circuit
did you also burn the bootoader from bsfrance?
Slightly less with via battery.
Also, didn’t burn BSFrance bootloader. Assumed they were identical.
I really don’t understand this but he, its 20x better then my lowest find and very acceptable for a battery powered device (its not 50 uA but ok 
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€14,20 EUR incl shipping and coming from France
see code example here
* ordered another one, now from BSFRANCE from link , and it’s expected here beginning next week
The day after … and what a great day it was !
Met with many nice TTN’ers …
@Charles @wienkegiezeman @kersing @pe1mew @arjanvanb @bluejedi @laurens @rish @johan @telkamp @brocaar @75axr75
have fun on day 2 
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Rob,
I’m glad to tell you that you you won a RAK831 gateway at workshop @bluejedi and I gave it to @laurens, you should have soon, congratulations !!!
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tnx Charles ! BlueJedi send me a messages yesterday evening … I am happy, now I can try everything I learned from the excellent RAK-RESIN workshop
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With special thanks to @kersing who did a major part of the preparations and presented the first of the three gateway workshops.
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Hello.
When i saw the picture… 
Yesterday ariving from a nice guy from our community.
And YES he want`s to proof my solderskills!
And @Charles … A big THANK YOU for your marvelous PCB`s. Love them.
Greets
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Hello.
At the moment at my Wörkbensch.
Building a Freifunk-IoT-outdoor-Gateway.
Starting with a little photosession
Wrote a little bit description in our Forum
And sorry guys, english is not my langauge. ;-p
Feel free to visit our Website to find out more.
Greets and have fun
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looks like early Christmas on your table … all nice presents
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Christmas? What`s about Eastern? 
Some peaces are spend from the guys from our comm. . Eg WLANRouter, Pi, RAK831.
Much to do!
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10 years (for real) without ever changing or charging the node battery ?
NEW!! CH2I XXL - small low powernode + big battery, the new 2018 trend 
- I will use @lex_ph2lb code from his project
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removing the PWR Led and the LDO it will continue for 20years
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still don’t understand Net Id 0x00 … it’s forwarded by TTN, must be registered by TTN ?
and its not close to me I think ( received with RPI / RAK831 indoor GPA )
Hi Rob I believe the 0x00 may relate to specific test network/test devices (check wrt LoRa Alliance LoRaWAN NetID) - good that TTN is picking up vs dropping the packets/payload.
I think the original LoRaMOTE’s (Semtech/iMST) associated with the SMTC LoRa IoT Dev/Demo Kits may be programmed with this. (I note also running SF12)
If you can decode the payload (Poss through Cayanne?) likely you may get the full LoRaMote payload (GPS Data, Battery level, Barometric pressure/altitude, Temp.). In which case if mote is very remote may help you get some understanding of your gateways coverage via the included GPS signal.
I will be posting my own experience of getting my TTN Gateway up and running this last week in another thread (Central or Status of? TBD) when I have a few moments and fact is that whilst GW came up fine I had no free nodes to test as they were all allocated to other networks & customer or private demoes. By chance I powered up an old LoRaMOTE from my spares box SMTC had given me late 2016 - supposedly dead - and hey presto I caught traffic on my GW - with 0X00. That then prompted me to try another two associated with old SMTC IoT Demo Kit and they were picked up too! Had them running in Thames Valley Tues/Wed night then took them and GW to N.West (along Mersey valley) and had them running there too Friday…so long may TTN support and pass through, please!
Haven’t got my data online right now to check my received payload structure but from memory from your 40 FC 0A 15 00 80 04 00 01… I suspect the Dev Add of the node you are picking up is either 01:00:04:08 or 00:04:80:00 or 04:80:00:15 …perhaps another forum user may recognise and shout up!
Cheers, Jeff
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If I copied the payload correctly, then it seems this is not using the default Semtech keys, so decoding is impossible. (The DevAddr is not encrypted, and is 0x00150AFC.)
And yes, TTN will handle the test prefixes 0x00 and 0x01, if some TTN user has registered the device.