Need some help to get started with TTN

[descartes (Nick McCloud)]

Here’s my latest war & peace on getting started:

Australian Student looking to experiment with budget lora tech

@hidara - do not do as the bulk of the engineers in the world do, which would be: Skip the reading Start with a multi-part project Use the bare minimum of components Skip the reading Ask questions on here without any indication of prior research LoRaWAN has many parts to it, try not to have too many elements being worked on in parallel unless you have plenty of duct tape to reseal your head when your brain explodes, but a good running order would be something like: Order a gateway and TWO di…

@PAHVelthuis

or at least a setup which is guaranteed to work.

- more in your hands than you’d believe, unless you get a pre-made device (Dragino LDS02) with a The Things Indoor Gateway or if you have a bit more money, a LIG16 Indoor LoRaWAN Gateway.

When you say “existing gateway”, when getting to grips with LoRaWAN we highly recommend having a gateway of your own so you can look at the logs hence the recommendations above.

@PAHVelthuis

it looks like there’s no silver bullet available

You should take up comedy!