Hi all
Please forgive the blatant advertising, but hear me out!
I’m Al, part of the Edinburgh community in Scotland. As a community we’ve added a bunch of gateways to TTN over the last year and been out mapping. I’ve installed two permanent gateways myself, and a bunch of other test ones. With a combination of DIY IMST and RPi gateways, Laird RG186 and others and we now have pretty good coverage over the city, with more to come.
One of the biggest problems we had was actually getting hold of stuff, particularly suitable antennae and decent quality cables. I ended up importing antennae and other bits and pieces through my company. We’re in the process of building LoRaWAN nodes, but in the meantime I thought it would be a good idea for us to properly import and resell some of the gear we have tested and installed from here in the UK. I gave a talk a couple of months ago and lots of people were asking where to buy gateways from, now I can tell them! It’s connectedthings.store!
We’ve started out by selling my favourite LoRaWAN things, including LORIX One and Laird RG186 gateways and Sirio antennae. The Laird gateways are really easy to use and reliable, and one of the Edinburgh community members has installed more than five around town. I’ve used Sirio GP 868 C antennae and been really impressed with the quality and range (see Edinburgh on TTN Mapper, I’ve installed them at two sites so far), so they were definitely on the list for the launch stock.
We also have a selection of pre-made low-loss RF cables, including SMA to SMA or N cables in different lengths, with more options for arriving coming soon (including pesky RP-SMA…).
We’re starting out with small quantities of everything, but I’d really like to ramp this up and stock more and more LoRaWAN kit, so I’d be keen to hear if people have any suggestions. We’re based in the UK so everything is priced in GBP, but we’re happy to sell everywhere we can. In fact our very first order was from Romania!
As a launch offer, we’d like to give 10% off to the first 10 people who use the discount code TTNTEN at https://connectedthings.store
Thanks for listening, we’re just a two nerd company at the moment, and really want to see TTN and LoRa grow, and grow alongside 