How to set old DevAddr in TTN when restoring deleted ABP device?

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Hi,
I have been flying TTN HAB trackers (bz-ttn-v2) but on the ttn mapper I never could find any results back when entering bz-ttn-v2 either with View Map or CSV data. I added an experiment name ( belowesealevel ) and that showed up on the ttn mapper.

So I thougt, I remove the device after saving all the settings to a text file but now it appears to me that I cannot add / change the device address to the one used in my 3 programmed devices.

Of course it is possible to open the cases and re-program the devices, but I want to check first if it’s indeed not possible to re- add the same existing device to my application.

Any ideas on this ?

Thanks,

Ben

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Why not? I assume you’re using ABP and are referring to seeing “The device address will be assigned by the network server” after changing from OTAA to ABP in TTN Console?

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In TTN Console, you could set the session keys by clicking the pencil icon. To force the existing DevAddr, I think you could use ttnctl devices set (which you could then also use for the session keys).

(The DevAddr needs to adhere to a scheme as for OTAA/ABP and the region. But as TTN has assigned it, that should be okay.)

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Maybe you also need --override in ttnctl. And maybe it is not supported at all, given the following:

For ABP devices you have to request an address from the NetworkServer (the console or ttnctl will do this for you).

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Well, short version :wink: It worked !

Never had run the ttnctl ( or my memory is that bad) but I succesfully followed your steps, after switching to the right application I could change the device address and indeed needed to add the --override :slight_smile:

Many thanks !

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