Simple LoRa Gateway

Simple LoRa Gateway

Simple LoRa gateway implementation for DycodeX's LoRa Raspberry Pi Hat.

Getting Started

Installing Required Libraries

Make sure you have wiringPi and bcm2835 library installed on your Pi. If you don't install it this way:

bcm2835

wget -c http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835/bcm2835-1.52.tar.gz
tar zvxf bcm2835-1.52.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make check
sudo make install

For detailed instruction, please see this link.

wiringPi

On most Pi, this library is installed by default. Check the installation by running:

gpio -v

If there's no error, then wiringPi is already installed. You can skip the installation section below.

To install wiringPi, you must have git installed on your system.

Then excute these commands:

git clone git://git.drogon.net/wiringPi
cd wiringPi
./build

Then, check your installation

gpio -v

Building the source

Enabling or Disabling MQTT support

Before building the source, you need to decide whether you want to publish every received data to a MQTT broker or not.

By default, publishing to MQTT is disabled. If you want to enable the feature you need to edit the src/rf95_server.cpp file.

You need to find and uncomment the line below:

//#define MQTT_ENABLED

so that it becomes:

#define MQTT_ENABLED

Building the source

Clone this repository, and build it by simply running:

git clone https://github.com/dycodex/Simple-LoRa-Gateway
cd Simple-LoRa-Gateway
make

If everything works fine, an executable namely rf95_server will be created.

Running the gateway

If you disable the MQTT publish feature, simply run the command below to start the gateway:

sudo ./rf95_server

If you enable the MQTT publish feature, you need to provide the following information to the environment variable.

• MQTT client ID as MQTT_ID environment variable. Note that some server requires this value to be unique among every clients.

• MQTT host as MQTT_HOST environment variable.

• MQTT topic as MQTT_TOPIC environment varibale. This topic will be used in publish message.

• MQTT username as MQTT_USER environment variable. This value is not required if the server disable the authentication mechanism.

• MQTT password as MQTT_PASS environment variable. This value is not required if the server disable the authentication mechanism.

You can provide values for these environment variables by editing the start file.

Then, start the gateway by executing the following command:

./start

Important Note: The jumper on the board should be at NSS and GPIO 25.

License

MIT