Ok, I’m looking to gather people interested in TTN in the Stockholm area so have updated the community page. I organised a meetup on the topic of “wireless” which ended up being more about LoRa and TTN with a few other interesting presentations as well.
If you’re interested, please check out the videos we recorded here.
Get in touch if you have ideas and input and join the community on the community page.
Look forward to the discussions!
Anders
Hello.
I just posted a suggestion for a pub crawl on our community. https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/stockholm/post/lora-pub-crawl
then I realized it is not possible to edit or comment on the posts, so I am posting here with a call for input on this Idea.
The event will happen, but it will be more fun if I am not alone.
Sounds like a Great idea with a pub crawl! Working on my RAK wireless board. Hope I will have this working by then.
Not sure I’ll be able to join but a great idea nonetheless!
Starting at Nya Carnegie bryggeriet at 16 on Saturday May 12.
Weather forecast looks good and we still have 2 spots at the table.
If you plan to arrive late, here is live tracking of the event.
Live tracking
Data is sent over Lora and the things network.
Hi Melbratt! Still active here? care to meetup (meat space) or online? I’m consirering pretty large installation and need better understand what would be gained by joining TTN.
Yep yep - pinged you on masto
Hello everyone!
I’m a university student and I’m really excited to start experimenting with LoRaWAN for a school project. I’m quite new to all of this, so I was hoping to get some guidance.
I’m wondering if it’s possible to send data from a device (like a Raspberry Pi with a LoRaWAN module) to any of the gateways shown on the TTN gateways map. If I do that, will the data automatically be sent up to the TTN server so I can use it in other applications? Or would I need to set up my own LoRaWAN gateway for this to work?
Thanks so much for any advice!
Technically, yes, on a good day. However it is not advised as LW timings are pretty strict and if the Linux kernel goes off to do something else for a few ms, it can cause issue. That and there aren’t very many LW stacks that “just work” on a Pi (for the previous reason).
There are a whole pile of possibilities for a microcontroller with a LW stack that can be programmed in a relatively friendly environment.
Technically, yes, on a good day which means you have line of sight between the device antenna and the gateway antenna, it’s not raining hard and there are no obstacles protruding in to the imaginary oval (aka Fresnel Zone) that is stretched between the antennas.
Creating a device & getting it going is made much simpler by owning your own gateway. Which also allows you to see if your device was heard by the gateway, not some thing you can do with someone else’s gateway.
The TT Network is public so if you are a short distance away and you want all your neighbours to be able to deploy a known good device, normally a commercial one, then it tends to work out fine.
But for learning LW and building devices, it’s not so convenient.
That’s what it is for, so that’s a yes.
I’d strongly recommend reading this: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/lorawan/
Takes about an evening and we assume it as basic knowledge for those asking technical Q’s