Passing on a gateway to a new owner

[arjanvanb (Arjan)]

For the sake of completeness: it seems to depend on the packet forwarder that is used.

When using a forwarder that enforces a specific gateway id (like based on the MAC address), then indeed one should never delete it. This applies to, e.g., the legacy forwarder, which is also used when registering the TTIG on V2 (though that uses Basic Station). But other forwarders allow for choosing one’s own gateway id. For those, one simply needs to choose a different unique id when deleting and adding it again. From Slack:

@proffalken 2020-03-09 3:32 PM

Hmmm, I guess my gateways don’t tend to force the eui as the ID - I’ve got both Multitech and RAK gateways that have been added/removed from various TTN Accounts, so YMMV

Same might go for devices: their unique id might be blocked for future usage, but as you can choose whatever you want, that seems fine. Beware:

@htdvisser

Devices need to be deleted in order to release their IDs/EUIs for future registrations. Due to the way our registries work, deleting an application does not implicitly delete devices under that application, so users need to delete their devices explicitly before deleting an application.

(More details in that post.)

@Jeff-UK

use the transfer ownership option under the GW overview… you can skip the collaborator option but is useful to check user entered correctly and valid

I don’t understand the message that is shown for “change owner”, so I’d be on the safe side and always add the new owner as a collaborator. See Is it possible to change the owner of a gateway - #6 by arjanvanb.