Setting up your first gateway

Gateways
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#Getting started
A comprehensive guide to get started can be found here: Getting Started

The pragmatic way:

###Gateway
Kerlink
###Nodes
Use the overview here OverviewNodes

##Examples
Take some time to run one of these Examples

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Here’s the new link: http://thethingsnetwork.org/wiki/Hardware/OverviewNodes

Can someone edit this?

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All Done! :wink:

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Hi,

I configured my gateway to point to croft.thethings.girovito.nl UDP port 1700 as detailed on http://thethingsnetwork.org/wiki/Software/Overview
The packet_forwarder is running sending and receiving UDP frames.

Now what? how to enter the cloud to see dataframes and to create/configure nodes?

I am not involved in the Amsterdam project. It is only for test purposes, but I plan to set up a The Things Network in Spain.

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Welcome!

There is a temporary webinterface where all the packages should end up:

http://croft.thethings.girovito.nl:8083/
gateway status messages: “select * from gateway_status where time > now() - 5m”
packages: “select * from rx_packets where time > now() - 1h”

We’ll release better instructions and an API over the next weeks. @johan can probably provide you with further (temporary) instructions and help debugging in case the packets don’t end up in the interface.

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Ah Turiphro just answered first.

Hi Nestorayuso! Good to hear you went ahead and configured the Gateway. Unfortunately there is no user interface yet. It is our number one priority to make this, we are working on it. Apparently there is!
Until then please share your experiences with LoRa so far and help us making The Things Network happen! Please leave your gateway connected and we will look in the system tomorrow during the Open Hacker Space.

Take a look at how to start your own The Things Network and show us how your are going to use The Things Network at the Use Cases Category. Or share some of your experiences so far.

Want to do more: Let me (@fokko) or @Wienke know.

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Hi,

My gateway is online now and all the day.

EUI is B8-27-EB-FF-FF-04-B4-19

It is a home made gateway using raspberry-pi and mCard total 200€

https://github.com/mirakonta/lora_gateway/wiki

I also plan to make a comercial grade gateway for less than 200€

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Cool! I’ve added your guide to our own wiki:
http://thethingsnetwork.org/wiki/Hardware/OverviewGateways#do-it-yourself

Note we will also launch a kickstarter with 200€ gateways in October.

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Hi Nestor

Are you in Spain? I am launching TTN in Sao Paulo Brazil. We are planing to build this gateway the way you did. If we need help can I contact you?

Do you know what would be the range of the coverage of this gateway?

Thanks
Flavio

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Hi @turiphro. Do you know if the Things Gateway (to be built by the Kickstarter campaign) will support the 915MHz frequency?

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As far as I know yes; @Tweetonig can you confirm?

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Hi @flavio, @turiphro is completely right. All kickstarter hardware (gateway, node and uno) will be developed in three versions (868, 915 and 433)

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Hi @Tweetonig @turiphro. Thanks for your reply. I ordered the Things Uno before I knew that the frequency allowed in Sao Paulo Brazil is 915MhZ. It will be used to communicate with the mcard of Multitech: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/MTAC-LORA-915/881-1239-ND/5246368 which is 915MHz. Which options do I have now? Is there any DIY option for the sensor node too to build one Arduino based node that operates in this frequency? When are you planing to have the 915MHz Things Uno available?

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Hi @flavio we will offer them during the kickstarter that will go live in the coming weeks.

There are some development boards ready for testing with your band, check these libelium modules out, the 900 should work: https://www.cooking-hacks.com/catalogsearch/result/?cat=&q=lora&order=pr&dir=desc&limit=64

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Update: I am asking the engineers at Cooking Hacks if this board meets FCC specs. Thanks.

Hi @Tweetonig — we are building our own as well. In your experience, does this 900Mhz meet the US 902 - 928 MHz ISM license-exempt frequency band? Thanks, I know you may not have an answer to this specific question . . . https://www.cooking-hacks.com/lora-900-extreme-range-connectivity-kit —

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@creatinghere we believe so, but didn;t have any official reports on this, so please update us when you know more!

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Cooking Hacks says “not FCC certified” — although they do say it operates in the 900Mhz frequency band the FCC would certify. (As a company, they do not want to say it is ‘certified’.)
I have a post in to their forums for a clearer “engineer’s” pov of the exact frequency band, but for now that’s the info CH goes by. More soon! Thanks!

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I am interested in upstream traffic management — structuring the gateway to allow for BLE (small packet stuff) and feeding it to WIFI (larger packet stuff) through the network.
Does anyone have info on staging networks/gateways to allow for this?
I’ve been following the Artik board (rolling out soonish — https://www.artik.io/blog/2015/iot-101-networks) — they will provide an Arduino shield that has this capacity… I particularly want to manage MQTT pub/sub as JASON, then map that real-time to clients . . . Thanks!

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Here is the full specification for the Libelium SX1272 Wasp Mote LoRa Arduino board, provided by Cooking Hacks.
The information sheet (Waspmote LoRa 868MHz 915MHz SX1272
Networking Guide) states the board will meet FCC regs — and the pdf is itself a primer on hardware, network, communication and (some) code.

And, here is the link on Cooking Hacks for the rig and example code:
https://www.cooking-hacks.com/documentation/tutorials/extreme-range-lora-sx1272-module-shield-arduino-raspberry-pi-intel-galileo/

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We have finally decided on our gateway/node setup.

Primarily because we are building a “kit” for people in the US/915-land to use, we are going to use this kit: https://www.cooking-hacks.com/lora-extreme-range-connectivity-kit with the 915Mhz waspmote, AND the Lora USB Gateway, with an Arduino Uno.

Love to know that the LoRa Gateway Driver will work with this gear. Thanks!