How to make a join ABP process with RN2483A module?

[arjanvanb (Arjan)]

@MOS-FET

I thought I can only use one method to join.

See OTAA then ABP.

@MOS-FET

I read you do an sys reset. Could it be that you loose here your stored Mac keys and so on?

Agreed, the sys reset between the mac join otaa and mac join abp looks weird. Why are you doing that?

If it still does not work without that, then:

@ledi007

Reset RN2483
→ RN2483 1.0.5 Oct 31 2018 15:06:52

I wonder if the dummy values are still needed for 1.0.5, and if that might even make the RN2483 stop overwriting the dummies with the OTAA-supplied values? (I know, it doesn’t make sense, but neither does the need for those dummies make sense.)

Or maybe starting afresh with a sys factoryRESET helps?

(Aside: a long time ago, for 1.0.1 when this hack surely was needed, it took me a long time to realize why things stopped working after a factory reset. After doing a true ABP activation during early testing, and switching to OTAA later, the mac join otaa, mac save, mac join abp sequence would work just great. Until at some point I did that factory reset and no ABP values were stored anymore, which broke that sequence. So, now I actually always do a factory reset whenever restarting the node, to get a clean state.)

@ledi007

// set duty cycle ch 0 … 7
mac set ch dcycle 0 999
→ OK
…
// set channel status ON ch 0 … 7
mac set ch status 0 on
→ OK
…

Aside: is that needed? For OTAA in EU868, I never did anything like that.