Mikrotik Wiki entry listing all the settings
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Another supplier listing
EuroDK has a Mikrotik section entry for it, but, no products listed as yet.
LinITX also have the wAP loRa8 on backorder for around December.
Mikrotik have officially listed Lora (though the package was already in the testing branch) support in latest Beta OS release.
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Mikrotik does not currently have the wAP LoRa8 kit in stock. The estimated time for availability is December 21st.
hi, thanks for this information
We have an office where we currently use a 4g mifi type router as itās difficult to get a phone line in. Iām also running a TTIG there.
Iām wondering how this would fare as a 4g to Ethernet and WiFi router with Lora as a bonus on the side. Any thoughts?
What is the 3rd party card that you are using?
Iām using the N-Fuse card (https://www.n-fuse.co/devices/LoRaWAN-Concentrator-Card-mini-PCIe.html) but the latest version no longer supports the 3rd party card. I had to downgrade back to the 1st beta version that included LoRa support. Iām waiting on the official cards to come out so I can swap that in.
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Whatās new in 6.46 (2019-Dec-02 11:16):
MAJOR CHANGES IN v6.46:
!) lora - added support for LoRaWAN low-power wide-area network technology for MIPSBE, MMIPS and ARM;
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The R11e-LoRa8EU card is shipping now.
Yes, the card has been available this week. The two units ordered from helpful Sonictest in Estonia arrived quickly.
It is possible to assemble the kit from wAP R11e, LoRa8 card, U.fl/SMA female pigtail (and external LoRa antenna).
Yep you can build your own kit so you dont have to wait until Mikrotik ship all components together in the Kit 
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Hi,
My Mikrotik GW just arrived. It is a LtAP Router with the RN11e Lora Card. The GW was easy to setup for TTN and is running fine with LAN connection.
But I am not able to config WiFi to use the GW as a WiFi client, because I want to put the GW on a place without LAN.
As soon as I try to add the WiFi, I cantāt reach the router any more. I must admit, I have no idea about Mikrotik Routers.
Can anybody help me with this?
Martin
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So Iām now using an LTAP-LTE providing LTE to WiFi and Ethernet routing and also a LoRa gateway for the office. Fantastic LoRa performance.
Iām getting dropouts on the LTE side - apparently Three prefer dual in demand rather than persistent connections so Iāve switched on the Watchdog functionality to reboot when LTE drops. Also worth upgrading the LTE card firmware (although turn off the watchdog for this).
Note the Lora8 gateway canāt do any cellular even though it has sim slots - the mini PCI-e is filled with the LoRa card
I have several mikrotik lora8 cards up and running.
8 pcs in combination with an lte card on a RBM33G board in outdoor cases,
2 pcs in wap R with a wifi or cable backhaul.
and will get my first ltap with lte and lora next week.
all are running stable.
Hi,
Iām trying to experiment with the MikroTik LoRa card to connect to the router.eu.thethings.network but I couldnāt connect at all. I registered the gateway under console with the respective details (Europe868MHz, ttn-router-eu), but even if I collect RF data, it seems that the gateway remains offline (see pic).
I attached the lora settings as well if someone has any idea.
[admin@LoRa] /lora> print
Flags: X - disabled
0 name="gateway-2" status="Enabled" hardware-id="32353132xxxxxxxx"
gateway-id="323531323xxxxxxxx" servers="" channel-plan=eu-868 antenna-gain=0dB
forward=crc-valid,crc-error network=public lbt-enabled=no listen-time=5000us
rssi-threshold=-150dBm
Thank you
First of all, all packets list CRC status error and packets with crc errors should ārightlyā not be forwarded to TTN.
Next, the servers=āā looks suspicious to me, I would expect that value to be non empty.
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Did you (try to) configure it for only TTN? What does the āServersā page in your screenshot show?
Though maybe the verbose logging in your screenshot might be incorrect when itās trying to interpret packets for which the CRC clearly failed (or for LoRa traffic that is not LoRaWAN traffic), a Join Request followed by a Join Accept after 5 seconds nicely fits the expected RX1-timing, so seems to indicate itās communicating to some server?
But the DevAddr in that Join Accept, and the ones in the downlinks, are not TTN addresses (which should start with 0x26 or 0x27). And assuming this is running as a gateway (right?) then it should not hear downlinks transmitted by other gateways. So, seeing logging of downlinks with non-TTN addresses doesnāt feel right to me.
Unless you know what youāre doing, you should only connect your gateway to a single network.
It seems that the empty server field was the main problem. I set the field servers=ttn while the ttn points to router.eu.thethings.network. All of the packets under traffic appear with CRC Status āErrorā, however my Console says that it has received a packet as you can see in the following pics.
Do you think that this is a normal behavior ? I expect a couple of LoRa sensors by the end of next week, so for now Iām experimenting with sensors that may listen on the air.
Thanks