Thanks for the contributions from you all. Arjan was correct the WeMos D1 R2 does have a pulldown on GPIO15. The extra clue from cswiger made the difference. I connected the pin between VS and SI to 3.3V and it booted after a delay of 10 seconds every time. I added another 10k pulldown in parallel and it the booted properly every time.
The Modtronix documentation around VS is confusing. Their circuit diagram is helpful to work out what the un-named pin is doing.
Thanks for the assistance. I’m still not able to send any messages to Kotahi.net (my local Lorawan gateway). The same inAir9b works fine on my Arduino Mega, so there is something else strange about the setup. Maybe I’ll provide separate 3.3V like cswiger.
Hi, I’ve managed to make a gateway using the LinkLab LoRa gateway. I have the ESP8266 running LMIC and sending packets to the gateway. I can see them at the gateway level or with netcat on the 1680 port.
My question is how about the down link to ESP8266. Did you managed to make it work ? I’ve tried the sudo ./util_tx_test -n 1680 -m LORA -s 7 -t 1000 -z 55 -x 10 to send 10 packets, but I don’t receive them at the ESP level. Having only one way is not LoRa compatible. I know that LMIC suppose to work in the RX2 window. On my gateway I am running (evaluating ) the https://github.com/mirakonta/Raspberry-PI-Link-Labs-LoRaWAN-Gateway sw. The TTN’s version will be for desert
So the question is how to send downlink packets to the nodes ?
(And of course, the gateway must support downlinks too; most Single Channel test gateways don’t. As an aside, beware that downlinks will be very limited, one day.)
Yes, I have a true gateway ( a LinkLab Pi hat ) I moved from single channel gateway ( PI + ESP8266) to a truly gateway and I am aware of the air time ( 10 msg per day downlink is more then enough for me).
I’ve checked the lorabase.h so DR_DNW2 is set to DR_SF9
enum { DR_DNW2 = DR_SF9 };
and the LMIC.dn2Dr = DR_DNW2; in lmic.cpp in function lmicJustJoined. So, I guess I good with that.
Using
./util_tx_test -n 1680 -m LORA -s 7 -t 1000 -z 55
is just enough to have a packet received in ESP ? I’ve seen the packets in gateway but not on ESP, no event EV_RXCOMPLETE is triggered.
followed by a reboot. Tried both the normal LMIC-master library as the Things4u lmic-v1.5 , different pin settings.
Weird thing is I get the exact same behaviour when my protoshield is not connected; wiring seems to check out (or did I fry it while soldering…?).
RFM95 (sx1276, 868mhz) with what seems the correct settings in the cpp’s, connected to a Wemos D1 mini (via DIO0, DIO1, NCK, NSS, MISO, MOSI, 3v and gnd); same pin mapping as the others.
This combination (or similar) can be used.
The Wemos D1 module (same as the above) will work withe the Dragino Rev 1.3 module (I did not look at the other versions).
The following is the pin mapping, jumper configuration and wire link required for use with the LMIC library
// Wemos D1 (Rev 1) pin mapping and jumper settings for use with Dragino Lora Shield Rev 1.3
// Lora Shield - install jumpers SV1-1 to SV1-2, SV2-1 to SV2-2, SV3-1 to SV3-2
// Lora Shield - remove jumpers J_D101, J_D102, J_D105
// Add link from J_D101 pin closest to the aerial connector to D3 on the Arduino header
lmic_pinmap pins = {
.nss = 15, // CS
.rxtx = 4, // For placeholder only, Do not connected on RFM92/RFM95
.rst = 2, // Needed on RFM92/RFM95? (probably not) D0/GPIO16
.dio = {16, 5, 4}, // Specify pin numbers for DIO0, 1, 2
};
Are you going to add an SMA connector for an antenna? In that case maybe an edge mount one?
Are you going to mount the radio and the ESP module back to back on the PCB? Remember to ground everything properly, and add enough capacitors to the 3.3V. Also add enough via’s to connect the ground pours. I had issues with a previous design where the microcontroller reset when the radio transmitted. All due to bad grounding.
yes. The spirit of this dev is opensource.
Just need to finish the diagram to get sure.
I’m wondering about shortening the segment between antenna PIN and SMA connector to avoid antenna loss of power.
