LoRa-WiFi Gateway based on ESP32?

Gateways
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Hello all, is it possible to contribute to TTN gateways with own gateway based on TTGO ESP32 LoRa or similar (and wifi router)? I would like to run a gateway for the community, but the 100€ investment seems quite high if TTGO LoRa costs 10€…

Thanks, Jan

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The TTGo LoRa is designed as an end device - it can be programmed as a full LoRaWAN device that just happens to have a MCU that has a WiFi module built in.

A gateway has a much more powerful chipset on that can listen on 8 channels at once - which is good as a LoRaWAN device expects to be able to transmit on any of the 8 channels.

If you want to create your own mini-mesh with a TTGO LoRa providing a link to the internet for your range of devices, there is plenty of code around for that, but we only do LoRaWAN on TTN here.

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No.

The nodes are expecting to talk to a Gateway with 8 channels.