My Sentrius gateway is also connected through WiFi and never loses the connection, so for me the WiFi stability is excellent!
Have always found the Lairds to be good and stable though most of mine and others I know are on Enet, other wifi deployments have been great so am hoping it might just be a rogue unit…
Anyone with Wi-Fi stability issues, I urge you to contact our official support that way we can collect cases, find similarities and determine where the problem may lie.
@Jeff-UK In your case as you are operating the regulator very close to the line was it the symptom we had discussed previously?
Hi Ben, don’t believe so…I added an extra ~0.75V margin to get clear of any potential brown-out protection issues, & now monitor local low voltage feed for good stable voltage before then feeding GW with a faster rising edge by switching supply in through a relay after short delay which seems to work consistently for power up & resets. I will investigate further on next trip to N.West (will switch to a replacement board) but as its a >350mile round trip and not due up there for a couple of weeks will be a while before I get more feedback, hence asking if there were any known issues 
I’ve part built a duplicate solar powered/outdoor set that I will test further to see if I can replicate issue before I go up. Wifi on all other boards (e.g. WA1 site) and the duplicate looks good so far… 
Will investigate further before I raise through support channels just in case its something I’ve done/not done
I am trying to configure RG191 with The Things Network.
I see two issues.
- I don’t see simulated messages from Application/devices being forwarded to Gateway traffic.
- BLE indicator on my Gateway is not showing any sign of life
Does anyone else face these issues?
Here in N.Z the RG191 costs NZ$430 while the outdoor version will be NZ$1546 which is outrageous.
I just moved an RG191 into a metal enclosure, added an N-type pigtail, 1 metre antenna cable and a L-Com HG908U-PRO antenna and the upgrade cost me NZ$250.
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Ha I did the same thing when I saw the price difference also, it was a nice surprise to see the ufl connectors when I took it apart 
Nice work, looking flash!
I have the WiFi disabled, but just in case it’s ever enabled, I decided to leave a simple 1/4 wave antenna attached. I just sacrificed the U.FL to RP-SMA pigtails to make them and stripped the coax shield off for ~31mm
Did something similar - and set up a low voltage PoE feed - but careful angling of the board in housing allowed me to keep the Wi-Fi components as supplied as immediate option vs just wireline Enet 
GW is mounted on a ~10m mast with head end/GW upgrade from internal Laird supplied unit to external IP6x rated system costing <£100 in materials…power feed is from a mast base mounted Battery/Solar controller/Enet tap (for GW management/config without having to bring GW down or for backhaul connection if not on Wi-Fi) with external solar panel. Total cost for power source update materials approx £90-£95.
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Nice one! The weather held off today for me to deploy my first RG191 gateway out into the field. Antenna is a L-com 8dBi omni.
I haven’t fully tested it out yet, but I ran TTN Mapper on the way home and got all the way home (14Km line of sight) and was still getting packets through.
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UPDATED:
We just got our Sentrius RG186 as well! We were really excited - however upon trying to login with the default username and password… access was denied - we reseted the gateway - tried again - still same that the username and password are not correct ! (sentrius RG1xx)
(we tried from different browsers and computers … as well!)
Any suggestions? or is it the only ones we have this problem ?
thank you!
After resetting CORRECTLY - we managed to login with the default username and password
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Hi,
Is it possible to configure RG1XX to operate in the IN865 ISM band ( for eg., supporting the mandatory 3 channels 865.0625, 865.4025 and 865.985 etc) ?
It is unclear for me from the user guide at Laird’s website if this is possible.
Thank you.
Remember!!! When you connect via wi-fi always unplug the Ethernet cable…
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Where did you get your IP68 Enclosure?
were you able to get this working ?
Enclosure is a StationBox made by RF Elelments
Yep, got four out in the field and three more Raspberry Pi MTac based gateways as well.
Can you tell me about how many solar panels you used in this setup?
How many/size you will need will depend on placement - how much of a clear horizon you have, if there are buildings or trees obscuring /shadowing for part of day etc. - whether you have fixed or tracking install of the panels, and where you are in the world (solar elevation angle). The summer experiment kicked off with just one and a single battery per photo. It wasn’t expected that would be enough to get through winter or even through Autumn days if weather poor. Have been experimenting with since and have also been evaluating 24hr pwr consumption of the target GW’s.
If it helps a crude measurement of the consumption for a Laird bd running off nominal 5V USB supply suggests ~8400mAh - assume reading was 10-20% ‘light’ and looks like 10,000mAh a good target 24Hr pwr spec to work with…
So you need one or more panels capable of powering GW whilst also charging the standby back-up battery and ensuring adequate reserves under local adverse conditions - leaf fall and snow cover etc. (unless you are in a desert of-course 
), during whatever local sunshine hrs you get. During good summer weather I found I was getting useful (>75%MPP) for around 6-8 hrs/day so could size for ~1/3rd-1/4 of time being run with recovery whilst 2/3rd-3/4 draining battery. This time of year I’m finding its barely 1-2 hrs/day so have had to look at 50% increase in battery capacity and doubling up on the panels (Parallel install to ensure adequate charging current for battery whilst also running the GW). Even then I’m not convinced system will survive the worst a British winter and dark/rainy/snowy days can throw at it! Will be adjusting config as time goes on and will see what happens by time we get back to next spring