Help needed to get startet with RAK2245

How to get started
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As I have no gateway nearby I decided to start my own one. Yesterday the bundle RAK2245 Pi HAT/Raspberry Pi 3B+/WisTrio Tracker/16GB Card - SMA EU 868 arrived. Included was absolute no documentation but a brand new and empty SDHC card with a QR Code on it pointing to https://downloads.rakwireless.com/en/LoRa/Pilot-Gateway-Pro-RAK7243
From there I downloaded RAK7243_based_on_Raspbian_OS_V2.9.1_20190717.zip and burned it to the SDHC card using Etcher.
My Raspberry Pi is connected by LAN (not Wifi) and the DHCP server has given it the IP address 192.168.1.29. I also put screen, keyboard and mouse on the Raspberry Pi.
Trying to get in contact with the Rpi failed. SSH (PuTTY) gives error message “network error: Connection refused” and Rpi console login with user pi and password raspberry also failed. Also there ist a timeout when trying to contakt via IP-address using a browser.
Another image I found at
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/gateways/pisupply-hat directing me in step 1 to https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Iywy2sVq9GwXV7kQ4_MqteQUha7XcA39 where i got image_2019-07-07-iot-lora-gateway-lite.zip
SSH (PuTTY) here failed with Connection refused and also login with pi and password raspberry failed.
Raspberry Pi booting ending with
Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 iotloragateway tty
iotloragateway login:
But accessing from Windows desktop using Firefox to LAN ip address of Raspberry pi 192.168.1.29 and user pi password raspberry working fine. It brings up IoTLoRa Gateway Status Page but Packet forwarder not running.
Logfile is ending with some error messages:
Jul 30 07:09:55 iotloragateway iot-lora-gateway[1001]: 07:09:55 INFO: Description configured to “Volker Schulz in Spachbruecken”
Jul 30 07:09:55 iotloragateway iot-lora-gateway[1001]: 07:09:55 INFO: [Transports] Initializing protocol for 1 servers
Jul 30 07:09:55 iotloragateway iot-lora-gateway[1001]: 07:09:55 INFO: [TTN] server “bridge.eu.thethings.network” connected
Jul 30 07:09:55 iotloragateway iot-lora-gateway[1001]: 07:09:55 INFO: [main] Starting the concentrator
Jul 30 07:09:56 iotloragateway iot-lora-gateway[1001]: ERROR: Failed to load fw 1
Jul 30 07:09:56 iotloragateway iot-lora-gateway[1001]: ERROR: Version of calibration firmware not expected, actual:209 expected:2
Jul 30 07:09:56 iotloragateway iot-lora-gateway[1001]: 07:09:56 ERROR: [main] failed to start the concentrator
Jul 30 07:09:56 iotloragateway systemd[1]: iot-lora-gateway.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 30 07:09:56 iotloragateway systemd[1]: iot-lora-gateway.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
What can I do?

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I would start at the documentation for your hardware.
If you still can’t ssh to the RPi use these instructions to enable SSH.

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Maybe you have to start with this image.Then get SSH working to the raspberry. (to verify the network issue)


Then go back to the image with RAK2245 support.

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Gateway seems to be working! Thanks for your help.
My failure was thinking Rasperry is starting as DHCP client. Instead it is server and was in different subband than my LAN.
Privacy attributes status, location and owner are set to public and gateway is connected but it is not yet shown in the map.

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Well done :slight_smile: Note it typically takes between 30 mins & 8hrs for GW changes to reflect in TTN map depending on refresh rates. Often Community pages update faster than main site (IIRC) - if you are in range of a community then check there and you may see your GW