# Gateway is already registered **URL:** \ **Category:** The Things Stack v3\ **Tags:** gateways\ **Created:** [March 23, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048 "2022-03-23T20:40:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Johan\_Scheepers](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/johan_scheepers/32/46550_2.png) [@Johan\_Scheepers](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/Johan_Scheepers)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:07am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/62 "2022-10-20T11:07:02Z")
Make your gateway ID- panam-gateway-1 ---
**Author:** ![Jeff-UK](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/jeff-uk/32/35697_2.png) [@Jeff-UK](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/Jeff-UK)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:07am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/63 "2022-10-20T11:07:35Z")
As already explained - delete the old registration and try again with a new GW ID - the system will autopopulate with one based on the eui as you can see - delete this and overtype with your new free form text AS ADVISED… ---
**Author:** ![panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/panam/32/35697_2.png) [@panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/panam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:11am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/64 "2022-10-20T11:11:57Z")
![image](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/uploads/default/original/3X/5/7/57d4bbaa10198cea44f1ad48178d7014fac9990f.png) ---
**Author:** ![panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/panam/32/35697_2.png) [@panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/panam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/65 "2022-10-20T11:13:53Z")
now in the gateway id I will put panam-gateway-1 ? ---
**Author:** ![Johan\_Scheepers](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/johan_scheepers/32/46550_2.png) [@Johan\_Scheepers](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/Johan_Scheepers)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/66 "2022-10-20T11:17:12Z")
Now on our gateway it self, change the Gateway ID to match what is on the console, so with the Gateway EUI and Gateway Server address use port 1700 ---
**Author:** ![panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/panam/32/35697_2.png) [@panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/panam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/67 "2022-10-20T11:18:07Z")
I will try it ---
**Author:** ![panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/panam/32/35697_2.png) [@panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/panam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/68 "2022-10-20T11:23:32Z")
![image](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/uploads/default/original/3X/1/6/16f6ffa7daf627c3c3c561ba72089db2a98227ec.png) from here I can’t change the gateway id now ---
**Author:** ![Johan\_Scheepers](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/johan_scheepers/32/46550_2.png) [@Johan\_Scheepers](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/Johan_Scheepers)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:28am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/69 "2022-10-20T11:28:07Z")
No not at all, just use that ID to get your gateway up. ---
**Author:** ![panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/panam/32/35697_2.png) [@panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/panam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/70 "2022-10-20T11:31:02Z")
ok, I don’t need to change anything here? ---
**Author:** ![Johan\_Scheepers](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/johan_scheepers/32/46550_2.png) [@Johan\_Scheepers](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/Johan_Scheepers)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:38am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/71 "2022-10-20T11:38:35Z")
Just get your gateway to match the settings 😃 ---
**Author:** ![panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/panam/32/35697_2.png) [@panam](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/panam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 11:39am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/72 "2022-10-20T11:39:32Z")
i am so sorry thanks for you are help!!! ---
**Author:** ![Jeff-UK](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/jeff-uk/32/35697_2.png) [@Jeff-UK](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/Jeff-UK)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/73 "2022-10-20T12:24:41Z")
As Jac mentioned earlier some of your previous pictures have content obscured by menues etc. The docs for this item seem to use old TTN V2 console for setting up, which doesn’t help as should really be updated for V3 (Shame on you Rising HF! 😉 ), however I notice that whilst you have packet forwarder protocol enabled your pictures dont show which version/how set up. On early systems I believe they supported both the legacy Semtech Packet forwarder and what was labled the TTN Packet Forwarder - an alternate implementation, with a different back end connection mechanism, that is now deprecated! Have you fallen into the trap of doing what might seem logical and selecting TTN Packet Forwarder in the set up? If so please show us the options you are presented with and change and selection to Semtech Packet Forwarder - this is the classic system that makes use of UDP targeting Port 1700 and should work seamlessly with the guidance you have been given. ---
**Author:** ![bjurg47](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/bjurg47/32/43401_2.png) [@bjurg47](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/bjurg47)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/77 "2023-01-08T15:06:40Z")
I have tried to register my gateway again by deleting the ID 503139532b7c4750 from the list. It keeps on telling me that it already exists. How can I fix this? ---
**Author:** ![kersing](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/kersing/32/44777_2.png) [@kersing](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/kersing)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 4:02pm UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/78 "2023-01-08T16:02:57Z")
First question that comes to mind is why you felt the need to delete it and register again. There should not be any need. To help resolve your issue we need to know the exact error message you get. If it mentions the ID being taken (90% of the cases and a question that appears on the forum at least once every week) you need to add it again with the same EUI but a different ID (that is a field you can modify from the proposed default value). ---
**Author:** ![loraproje](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/839c29/32.png) [@loraproje](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/loraproje)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 8:02am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/79 "2023-04-20T08:02:12Z")
Dear Jac, I faced a similar problem. ![GW_failure](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/uploads/default/original/3X/b/2/b2f1f57cb34249294fa66017f3e08106de7fc8a8.jpeg) Here is the detail error log { “code”: 6, “message”: “error:pkg/util/store:id\_taken (ID already taken, choose a different one and try again)”, “details”: [ { “@type”: “[type.googleapis.com/ttn.lorawan.v3.ErrorDetails](http://type.googleapis.com/ttn.lorawan.v3.ErrorDetails)”, “namespace”: “pkg/util/store”, “name”: “id\_taken”, “message\_format”: “ID already taken, choose a different one and try again”, “correlation\_id”: “3c40d6bbda924f3b98cabcd9370f192f”, “cause”: { “namespace”: “pkg/util/store”, “name”: “already\_exists”, “message\_format”: “already exists”, “correlation\_id”: “6bf764c861154a66a387267ada96b9b7”, “code”: 6 }, “code”: 6 } ] } In fact, I just started to use TTN, could not see the gw activity on console so that I tried to delete and add again. I would appriciate your help. BR ---
**Author:** ![KrishnaIyerEaswaran2](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/krishnaiyereaswaran2/32/44663_2.png) [@KrishnaIyerEaswaran2](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/KrishnaIyerEaswaran2)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 8:30am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/80 "2023-04-20T08:30:40Z")
@loraproje: Please don’t post the same issue on multiple threads. See the other thread for my response. > [@Retrieving deleted LoRaWAN gateway](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/retrieving-deleted-lorawan-gateway/62649/3): > > This is documented [Troubleshooting Gateways | The Things Stack for LoRaWAN](https://www.thethingsindustries.com/docs/gateways/troubleshooting/#i-get-an-id-already-taken-error-when-adding-a-gateway). Only administrators can retrieve deleted identifiers. You can simply recreate your gateway using a different ID. ---
**Author:** ![descartes](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/descartes/32/47220_2.png) [@descartes](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/descartes)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/gateway-is-already-registered/56048/81 "2023-04-20T09:12:21Z")
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