oh yeah - I should update here…
turns out the issue was I didn’t see the instruction to manually set my frequency plan right, so i was stuck on the EU plan, which obviously wasn’t helpful for receiving anything on my 915 configured HW, with my properly configured 915 configured tracker node…
A bit funny, as for the autoconfig process I went through, you do need to fill in what your operating frequency is, so I had assumed it was “just handled” but it’s not, at all.
This is probably due to the fact that the codebase that RAK tell you to use is based on another concentrator board (ic880a) that only is made in EU frequency range, so their github project that RAK leverage has no need to set the global_config.json file to anything but the one setting…
Also, I had a funny thing where my RPI SDcard stopped registering file system changes over a reboot (I could edit or create a file, go back and read it back out, but then on a reboot it would be gone!) I reinstalled from scratch on a new SDcard and that is gone…