Do you have a known good device of your own to provide traffic?
The only thing that the message counters will show will be for traffic for TTN - so if the uplink you picked out isn’t for TTN it will have been discarded. I won’t pick out the hex dump, but it’s very hard to read the actual info, so no need to include it going forward.
Far more detail on the gateway, devices, version numbers of everything etc will help.
What ever node device you are using an RSSI of -15 is very high suggesting you have the node ontop of or extremely close to the GW, in which case likley overloading system and causing errors that will mean the packet forwarder drops any received messages without forwarding - move node atleast 5-10 m away , and preferably on other side of an absorber such as a wall or window…you may see more success. What is nodes, which GW? (looking at M=ID derived from MAC (?) is that a Pi based device? Also if MAC derived it doesnt follwo what we normally see with MAC padded with FFFE (sometime FFFF) for middle order bytes, though what you have (e5) ‘should’ work, is ID set by vendor?
Messages crossed and I see you have heltec device - powered on, even if not yet configured/registered to TTN? (It may have some existing/stock f/w that is Txing perhaps attempting to joing another network or just working under ABP. Without a device registered (yours or another TTN user) and decent seperation you wont see any activity counted
update, ok see you now at -55dbm - much more reasonable… now you have the other issues addressed by Nick…
Doh, another one to add to the big list of ways of snookering yourself - turn on device that’s not been provisioned - get packets in log - don’t see them on console.
There is a bit of a language barrier going on here:
“crafted my own mac” would say that you wrote the code.
If you mean you need to configure the Heltec software, then yes, you need to register the device online, some setting you take from the device, some you take from the web page and make sure they match on both sides.
The Heltec is a known OK device, so there’s nothing about the software.
So now I need to know if you are using the v2 or v3 console and if you are using ABP or OTAA?
In which case you have a LOT of reading to do… I have to dash but suspect Nick will send you a bundle of links wrt TTN docs and LoRaWAN Basics to go read