Anyone did GPS tracking app (android mainly) with LoRa?

O I thought about frequency and such. Like I said, I’m here to get advices on how to do it and what’s best practices. Calculations comes next. Surely if it’s not legal in 1 in 30sec it will be 40 or 60 … Don’t really care in this stage.

[image] darkman: Like I said, I’m here to get advices on how to do it and what’s best practices. Probably best to to assume that a lot of messages will end up towards the SF12 end especially if the ‘public transport’ is in a City with few gateways. A navigation payload at SF12 will take abou…

The fair access policy is clear enough. [image] Fair Use Policy explained End Devices (Nodes) For The Things Network’s public community network the Fair Access Policy limits the data each end-device can send, by allowing: An average of 30 seconds uplink time on air, per…

LoRaTracker, What do you mean when you ask “is it legal”. LoRa falls within the ISM band, as long as the “radio” falls within the specifications of the country its used. Darkman, I see you’re using the TBeam too, great little tracker. We use 3G trackers for buses, vehicles, trucks instead of LoRa…

[59%20AM] [19%20AM] Trailers with 3G trackers. We will eventually add LoRawan environment sensors which are “peel and stick” installed, collecting env data along their routes.

[image] DarrenO: What do you mean when you ask “is it legal”. LoRa falls within the ISM band, as long as the “radio” falls within the specifications of the country its used. Do the transmissions, possibly at the worst case scenario, stick to the 1% duty cycle limit, common to most countries. …

Er no, I meant legal. Fair access and what is legal are different.

Got it. Thanks for sharing. I see you’ve tested the SX1280, great to know Semtech makes a WIFI version for LoRa, will be a great fit with https://www.ui.com/products/#default

Indeed so, and whilst 2.4Ghz is shorter range, there are no duty cycle restrictions. Unfortunatley the hardware interface to the SX1280 is completly different to the SX127x, so none of the software for TTN nodes or single channel gateways will work.

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