I have been working with the great loRaWAN combo from STMicroelectronics - a low cost dev board based on a ARM®32-bit Cortex®-M0+ CPU, coupled with the Sx1272 on an Arduino-compatible shield.
Using the online mbed compiler - https://developer.mbed.org/compiler/ , I modded the demo code - LoRaWAN-demo-72 - to add simple output to an OLED display - see attached photo.
My node-red install runs on a server hosted by https://www.scaleway.com/ that costs around €3/month. I designed a very simple activity monitor - the design of which may help others.
To the basic node-red install, I added node-red-contrib-ttn and node-red-dashboard.
Here is the node-red code, remember to insert your own APPID and ACCESS KEY:
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