Isle of Man
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14 posts · page 1 of 2Worth a pivot to Meshtastic?
I've recently gotten into mesh networks, mainly Meshtastic. I see TTN on the Isle of Man seems to have no more remaining nodes, but I have noticed there are a a
Shutdown
Having only seen 5 TTN LoRaWAN packets in about a month, and with the cost of electricity being so high, I've decided to shut down the Port Erin gateway. This s
Gateway Map Issue
You've probably spotted that the map isn't showing our gateways at the moment! The current map code will only display the V2 gateways, and we've migrated ours t
Things Network V3 Migration
I've just moved the Port Erin gateway from the 'old' V2 stack, to the new EU1 cluster of the Things Network version 3. It looks to be working fine on the new in
Douglas Gateway
This afternoon I've installed a gateway up on Onchan Head. It doesn't quite have the line of sight of the whole of the bay I was hoping it would have, but I'll
The Network is Growing
Today we've increased our gateway count by 100%. "Soak" testing has gone well, and reliability is proven, so now is the time to turn our attention to finding de
TTN Gateway Hardware
After placing our order for an 'official' TTN Gateway back in July 2016 we finally got our hands on it this week. Sadly, it seems to be one of a significant num
LoRaWAN 1.1 Released
The new v1.1 specification for LoRaWAN has been released. There are quite a few changes, adding additional security and better roaming support. If you're develo
Behind the scenes
You may have noticed the Douglas gateway has been offline for a few days now. Don't worry - we've not given up! The gateway is currently undergoing some environ
Progress Update
Just a brief update on our recent progress: We've got a homebrewed (Raspberry Pi + IC880A) multichannel gateway up and running in Douglas, on a (mostly) 24hr ba
Gateway Build
Today we saw the final stages of our first gateway build. Everything is working well, with just a few tweaks to weatherproofing to finalise. We've got a bit of
First Message!
On Saturday 20th August, we successfully sent our first message! Huge thanks to John for getting all the bits together.