MAC commands on TTN Server

[felipe_robles]

Hello guys,

I am currently working on a project, I have a TTN gateway, and part of my project (written part) is to compare 2 Lora servers but what I have been asked to compare is if the servers support MAC commands and I am not sure about this because I havent found information online, but does TTN server support MAC commands? and how do you make them? sorry if this falls in a very newbie question.

[arjanvanb (Arjan)]

Of course TTN supports MAC commands. Not all of them (yet), but surely the most important ones. And there’s a lot to be found online:

• The LoRaWAN 1.0.3 specification.
• The code is open source.
• TTN supports ADR, which also uses MAC commands.
• There are several questions about it on this forum.
• There’s even the quite specific Can I send MAC commands to the node?

For an example on how to decode the MAC commands in the FOpts field, see TTN Node - link check does not work?

[haowong]

Sorry sir, the fifth most important network URL has failed.

What’s more, other relevant posts on the forum are rarely visible for the network server to actively send MAC commands.