LoRa Gateway as Wemos Shield
Recently I read, that the Dragino Single channel gateways do not work anymore (because of a change of the backbone). But I read also, that the small ESP8266 gateways still work. The problem seems to be solved. So, I built such a gateway. It can be mounted on a Wemos and you can also mount a small OLED display on top. Cool.
Now, th
e display shows, when traffic arrives and also the time it arrived, the RSSI, the SNR and the length. Of course, you cannot display the content or the sender. This information is encrypted…
In addition, two Neopixels show the state of the gateway.
Look at the size of the Gateway (right) compared with the Arduino/Dragino node. it is really cute!
I am now preparing the video to show you, how to build it.
20. April 2017 @ 15:23
Very good
21. April 2017 @ 11:43
Andreas Hi !
what do you mean that the Dragino Single channel gateways do not work anymore ? i am currently working on a project with the same Gateway , do you think this will be a problem for me ? and thanks in advance !
21. April 2017 @ 12:06
I read, that the software used for this gateway is no more supported. It was in a discussion o
In the TTN forum
22. April 2017 @ 22:18
Here you can find more information
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/resolved-some-single-channel-gateways-stopped-working/6529
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/the-future-of-single-channel-gateways/6590
17. May 2017 @ 19:14
Hello Andreas,
Do you have a bill of materials that you use on the board?
Greetings!
18. May 2017 @ 20:23
No, I do not have it. But it should be easy with Charle’s info on Github
4. June 2018 @ 7:12
I think its missing sma connector and antenna, let me see if i can contact charles or add them here
4. July 2017 @ 11:46
Hm, how can you be sure the traffic is encrypted? For starters the message simply looks base64 encoded …
4. July 2017 @ 12:48
I am absolutely no security expert. So, I only repeat what I hear in this area.
12. November 2017 @ 17:27
Hallo,
ich habe heute mein ESP8266 Gateway in Betrieb genommen. Vielen Dank für die tolle Anleitung. Mein Gateway wird auch bei TTN angezeigt. Nach mehreren Minuten scheint aber die Verbindung abzubrechen, da in der TTN Console der Zeit “last seen” sehr groß wird. Wenn ich mit dem Serial Monitor von Arduino mitlese kommen sehr schnell und sehr viele Meldungen… Diese sehen wie folgt aus:
rxpk update: {“rxpk”:[{“tmst”:2943997728,”chan”:0,”rfch”:0,”freq”:867.500000,”stat”:1,”modu”:”LORA”,”datr”:”SF7BW125″,”codr”:”4/5″,”lsnr”:0,”rssi”:-157,”size”:0,”data”:””}]}
Received packet of size 4 From 52.169.76.203, port 1700, Contents: 0x01:3C:BE:01:
Packet RSSI: -157 RSSI: -106 SNR: 0 Length: 0
Ist das richtig so? Und warum bricht die Verbindung zum TTN irgendwann ab?
14. November 2017 @ 7:28
Ich habe schon längere Zeit nicht mehr in die Kommunikation zwischen Gateway und TTN geschaut, so dass ich da nicht helfen kann. Ich würde mich im Forum auf “thethingsnetwork” erkundigen. Dort hat es wirkliche “Cracks”. Ich bin eher der Anwender in dieser Technologie.
14. December 2017 @ 13:27
Completed my first ESP gateway yesterday evening. When supplying power I noticed the same issues as Henning mentions using this sketch. At first I though it was due to bad soldering or the fact I left all zener diodes on the board (I noticed you took off one in the YouTube video).
When searching for a resolution, I came across another sketch by Maarten Westenberg (https://github.com/things4u/ESP-1ch-Gateway-v4.0) which actually established a working connection between the gateway and TTN.
Have not received a single package yet. I have not created a LORA client either, so might just be because there are no transmitters in the neighborhood… Perhaps somebody can load this sketch into his gateway as well and check whether it is capable of handling LORA messages using challards shield?
5. January 2018 @ 16:03
Maarten has updated his sketch again, I think (to 5.0) and at least one of my viewers was able to get it running.
19. February 2018 @ 4:36
Moin Moin Andreas.
Wir beschäftigen uns auch gerade mit de Lösung eines SCGW`s auf Basis des WeMos D1 mini für Testzwecke oder um Einsteigern es zu ermöglichen ihre IoT-Nodes zu testen wenn kein teures FullGW in Empfangsreichweite ist.
Eigentlich habe ich die BOM fast zusammen. Was sich iwie nicht finden lässt, ist das OLED was Du bei deiner Dokumentation verwendest.
Hast du bitte mal nen Schubs (Link) in die Richtung?
Die Modelle, die ich habe finden können haben die Anschlüsse GRN und VCC an der falschen Stelle (vertauscht).
Ich/Wir würden das gerne plug and play zusammenstellen.
Gruß
7. March 2019 @ 14:54
Hi Andreas!
Thanks for your youtube videos. I’m about to setup a Lora gateway, but I’m currently testing
a Particle until I get the lora gateway up and running.
Question:
Do you use Particle (~Arduino) boards ?
https://docs.particle.io/photon/
I found your github with modifications to TinyGPS++ for Glonass, and it works great.
However, in the webIDE for Particle, you can’t just include github stuff, you need to upload&publish to
Particle in order to use a library. I think other people would like to have access to this library too.
https://github.com/SensorsIot/TinyGPSplus-for-Neo-M8N
14. April 2019 @ 11:53
I never used Particle boards
25. June 2019 @ 11:53
Hallo
ich habe Dein Projekt über das Lorawan Gateway gefunden und wollte mich damit mal in die Materie einarbeiten, vor ein paar Tagen hatte ich noch den Link für die Teile bzw. das gesamte Projekt inkl Beschreibung gefunden, ist es weg oder bin ich nur zu blind?
Du hattes in einem Artikel die Teileliste und die Schema Zeichnung verlinkt. Kannst Du mit da aushelfen?
Danke und Gru0
jan
25. June 2019 @ 14:03
Hallo Jan, Ich jedenfalls habe nichts geändert. Ich würde mich sowieso an YouTube halten. Dort sollten die verwendeten Produkte verlinkt sein. Dort gibt es auch eine ganze Playlist mit meinen LoRa Videos.
3. June 2020 @ 16:49
Hi, I am from Colombia. The video seemed quite interesting to me. I am new working with LoRaWAN, I am developing a project which I need to use this protocol. I bought the 915 MHz band Heltec brand CubeCell HTCC-AB01 node. Since I’m new to this, I haven’t literally uncovered the box. I would like you to explain to me from scratch, if it is not a nuisance. I would like you to indicate which pins should I connect, how should I connect them, how should I connect them to the gateway, how should I do the tests, how can I control a sensor remotely with the help of that node. The gateway I have is a UG87 Ursalink brand. Any information you can offer me will be very helpful. Thank you.