Looks nice,
Mayby a bit of a random question but whats the point of having bluetooth on a gateway?
Canāt really think of a case where it would be usefull.
We have one in our office now and it seems to be working fine as a āLegacyā Packet Forwarder. Please let me know if you need more information. We will be selling them as a B2B distributor in the EU.
This week we received our first Laird Sentrius Lora Gateway at the office. Time for a first test to replace our RasPi based TTN gateway that frequently stalls. (Probably due to the SD-card unreliability).
As true Hardware-freaks we first opened the case to take a look inside
The Sentrius board is a quite simple setup, containing a base board with power and Ethernet interface, stacked with just 2 modules: A Linux-Based Wifi/bluetooth module (WB50NBT) with Atmel Cortex-A5, combined with a Lora-M2 module (RG186-M2). This is the concentrator-card containing the famous Semtech SX1301 and SX1257 radio chips. Three antennas are connected via u.fl-connectors to the external casing.
The Sentrius supports Dualband Wifi, Bluetooth 4.0 (BT and classic), LoraWan and Ethernet, and comes with full packet forwarder software with a set of defaults for well-known LoraWan Network providers, (including TTN - The Things Network).
Out of the box, the gateway is connected via the Ethernet port to your internet-available network. Like common gateways and routers, the GUI interface works via an HTTP connection. Setting up the gateway for TTN is a matter of 10-15 minutes using the presets. In advanced mode its possible to tune the gateway for other networks ā public or private. With additional development on the linux-platform, it should be possible to add multi-packet forwarders for any type of network ā this is to be continued.
The gateway is now 24/7 operational, and itās worth mentioning that the system is not running very hot (what we saw with our RasPi solution with a MultiTech concentrator it would burn your fingers!)
Gateway costs a 245Eu and the M2-concentrator module only will be available well below 100Eu by end-Q3.
Interest? ā drop me a mail
[quote=ājavos65, post:18, topic:6077, full:trueā]Gateway costs a 245Eu and the M2-concentrator module only will be available well below 100Eu by end-Q3.
Interest? ā drop me a mail
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So ā¬245 for a (as of 11/07) certified gateway with wifi and ethernet, available now? That will rough some feathers up .
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Digi-Key had 10 units in stock at ā¬250 a piece, but these apparently sold out immediately. They now show 16 weeks lead time. Mouser prices them at ā¬224, but also with 9 weeks lead time.
Tthe 10 units are still at Digikey, but you canāt buy them if youāre logged in from Europe because they havenāt received the necessary export paperwork from Laird yet. I was in touch with them but August is that dreaded month when nothing seems to happen no matter how hard you try
Yes feathers will be definitely be roughed up, not only is the base cost very interesting but I know understand that if you say order enough RM186 modules (and Iām not talking thousands here) Laird may even supply a gateway as a development kit free of charge.