RAK831 gateway with raspberry pi, AU 915MHz

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Hi everyone.

I’m quite new here. so I need to check a few things.
If you guys can help, that would be awesome.

I live in Australia, so I had to adjust or changes some config settings.
I’m currently setting up Raspberry Pi Gateway with RAK831 Concentrator + Converter board.
I’ve followed this tutorial - https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/labs/story/rak831-lora-gateway-from-package-to-online and went well I think.

The first thing I want to check is the gateway status of TTN console.
It shows ‘connected’. in the ‘status’ and ‘Last seen’ updated every 30 secs but I couldn’t see any updates on ‘Received Messages and Transmitted Messages’ like the following.
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and also there are nothing on ‘traffic’ tab.
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Is this normal? or just no node available near my gateway?? or actually gateway is working well, but just any node is not sending to my gateway?
so my point is , ‘Received Messages and Transmitted Messages’ always shows ‘0’ if there are no available nodes around it?

My second question is about making Lora node with arduino (pro mini or Uno)
I found a few articles , but not for AU 915Mhz.
Anyone knows how to set up or some good tutorials for Lora arduino node for Australia region??

Any help would be awesome.
Thanks.
Yong

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  • yes, could be that no node is transmitting within range of your gateway.

  • to be sure everything is working you must test yourself with a node in range.
    the only thing changes for an ‘australian’ node’ is some code with the used channel frequencies.

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Thanks BoRRoZ!

I should start to make my nodes and see what’s happening in Gateway Traffic then. :smile:
Yong

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You can create a dummy node under applications and send the uplink message, it will be seen on Gateway as well as in Device data traffic tab.

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Hi everybody!
Does anybody have any node script for testing an AU915 gateway? I’m in the same situation than YB1. I have a SX1276 868MHz-915MHz ESP32 LoRa Module
Thanks!

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Hi,

what madhuvarha means is, to test if your gateway is working you can simulate a device through the TTN console.

  • your gateway is connected, in the console the green led is seen and the GW is on the map
  • in the console create an application
  • goto application and add an device (node) … this is the ‘fake’ node
  • send some bytes to that non existing node

simulate

  • don’t use confirmed
  • don’t use port 0

to find code for your SX1276 868MHz-915MHz ESP32 LoRa Module I all ready gave you over PM some search info.

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If you select Device format : standard Cayenne data format to send the data, 0167FFD7, sending manual data will show Temp as below
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