# First permanent gateway

> Join us tonight at IoT Liverpool for our official launch. While we've had a gateway running and sending to TTN since March 2016, that has been on loan from Floo

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network Liverpool](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/liverpool/)
- Author: Patrick Fenner
- Published: 2017-02-22
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/liverpool/post/first-permanent-gateway

Join us tonight at [IoT Liverpool](https://www.meetup.com/iotliverpool/events/237699221/) for our official launch.

While we've had a gateway running and sending to TTN since March 2016, that has been on loan from [Flood Network](http://flood.network/) — many thanks to them — but tonight, we launch with our first permanent gateway, run and owned by TTN Liverpool community members. The first in a set of 5 gatway deployments around Liverpool over the next couple of months.

Our gateway build is based heavily on [ttn-zh](https://github.com/ttn-zh/ic880a-gateway/tree/spi)'s iC880a build, but with standardised construction, and remote monitoring and deployment. Build details are at [github.com/ttn-liv/rpi-gateways](https://github.com/ttn-liv/rpi-gateways/).