Hi all, after reading something i joined the community. ( TTN Niederrhein, Germany ) My plan is to put two gateways into operation. One in Krefeld, one in Tönisvorst. I’m not sure yet whether I should build the gateway myself or buy a ready-made device. To make it faster, it will probably be a comm…

MiktoTik has excellent gateway and also corresponding antenna’s (including antenna cable). I would highly recommend getting both as MikroTik uses antenna connector and cable holes on the gateway that are not ‘standard’ for use with most third party antennas.

Thanks for the tip about the antenna connections. I probably would have fallen into that trap. The Miktrotik gateway has a slot for a SIM card. Am I correct in assuming that this is only optional and that the router can communicate with the Lorawan server via my DSL line?

[image] botfixer: Am I correct in assuming that this is only optional and that the router can communicate with the Lorawan server via my DSL line? Yes, either by wireline E’Net or WiFi to your WiFi/DSL Router, WIFi AP or what ever to your DSL modem/router…I have one here connected just fine o…

Is it possible to send data from a LoraWAN sensor to a local server, e.g. via mqtt. I would like to send data from my sensors directly from the gateway to my local mqtt server.

Some, but not the Mikrotik gateways, can act as the LoRaWAN network server, but that’s off topic for a forum funded by TTI which runs the community TTN LNS and generally not recommended as you have no redundancy - if you lose the encryption settings you have to re-setup the devices. And you won’t b…

Thanks for moving the thread. I think that’s a misunderstanding. I want to install the gateways to support TTN. That’s the first goal. I just want to be able to send my sensor data locally to a lokal device, such like a smart home box or similar. In this way, i am able to use the data from my nearby…

[image] botfixer: I just want to be able to send my sensor data locally to a lokal device, such like a smart home box or similar. In this way, i am able to use the data from my nearby sensors, although the Internet access is disrupted One or the other. How often does your internet go down?

[image] Jeff-UK: [image] botfixer: Am I correct in assuming that this is only optional and that the router can communicate with the Lorawan server via my DSL line? Yes, either by wireline E’Net or WiFi to your WiFi/DSL Router, WIFi AP or what ever to your DSL modem/router…I have one here …

Why not using the best of all? In my opinion it is better to transport data locally first instead of send it hundreds or thousands of kilometer forth and back. Sure it´s a matter of the use case. Internet access is lost more often than my local LAN. Besides, that was just an example. Data delivered…

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Thank you for reply. So i give it a try with Mikrotik.