Arduino Pro Mini + Lmic+OTAA with Multi Channel Gateway

End Devices (Nodes) LMIC
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The examples in the sketch generator already send sensor data in a proper way. Like when selecting “Moisture, Temp and Light” then you’ll see:

void build_data() {
  dataTX[0] = (light << 4) | (tempK / 256);
  dataTX[1] = tempK;
  dataTX[2] = moisture / 256;
  dataTX[3] = moisture;
}

This sends a total of 4 bytes (32 bits) for 3 sensors:

  • 4 bits for light in a scale from 0 to 15 (hexadecimal 0x0 - 0xF)
  • 12 bits for temperature in Kelvin with one decimal, in a scale from 0.0 to 409.5 (0x000 - 0xFFF)
  • 16 bits for moisture in a scale from 0 to 65535 (0x0000 - 0xFFFF)

If you’d send that as human-readable text, you’d need many more bytes (like 14 characters, so 14 bytes, when sending separated with semi-colons as 15;409.5;65535, or 0x31353B3430392E353B3635353335 when displayed as hexadecimal ).

It even explains how to decode:

/* **************************************************************
 * build data to transmit in dataTX
 *
 * Suggested payload function for this data
 *
 *  var light = (bytes[0] & 0xF0) >> 4;
 *  var temp = (((bytes[0] & 0x0F) <<8 | bytes[1]) - 2731) / 10;
 *  var moisture = bytes[2] << 8 | bytes[3];
 *  
 *  return { payload: light + ";" + temp + ";" + moisture };
 *
 * *************************************************************/

…which you could use to decode and then return the values any way you want:

function Decoder(bytes, port) {

    // Test with 0A470000 for 0, -10, 0, or FB78FFFF for 15, 20.5, 65535
    var light = (bytes[0] & 0xF0) >> 4;
    var temp = (((bytes[0] & 0x0F) << 8 | bytes[1]) - 2731) / 10;
    var moisture = bytes[2] << 8 | bytes[3];
    return {
        light: light,
        celcius: temp,
        // Unary plus-operator to cast string result of toFixed to a number:
        fahrenheit: +(32 + 1.8 * temp).toFixed(1),
        moisture: moisture
    }
}
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