It is not illegal to send gifts. It is illegal to send a commercially bought product as gift to avoid import duties.
Anyway, not that it matters much these days. Customs stopped looking at those shipment stickers for ages (if they ever did in the first place). They just know what areas and type of packages to look out for the most, and increase the checks on those.
Man up dood! Wake up and smell the coffee - pay whatās due and be happy that you follow international rules of doing business - thatās life!
Iām OK with paying taxes, the problem is every time taxes are due you have to pay a fixed ā¬13 customs handling fee on top - that really stings especially for small orders. Thereās hardly justification for such a large fee other than maintaining an antiquated, broken, system.
Essentially itās a Ā£13 fine for being honest.
ādoodā hereā¦ and I smelled the coffee 
I understand what you mean but my intention was to show the total price of this gateway module imported in the Netherlands which is 108,38 + 35,76 ā¦ expecting a general pricedrop in this market segment soon.
After coffee Iāll boot my ironstation ā¦
finding a (temp) way to having access to the RPI GPIO with GW connected
What carrier ? Here in France DHL, Fedex, UPS itās every day 
And if there is no invoice from seller they apply a estimated price
Btw taxes are vat (20%) and As Iām company Iām getting it back so as said @jmarcelino the only line really paid is 13ā¬
Only option basic postal service never paid any taxes with it.
Hi Charles, this was POST NL but thereās no difference in taxes, only in handling costs.
For the Netherlands (donāt know if thatās EU rules) you donāt pay any taxes if the value is below ā¬22,-
From ā¬22,- to ā¬150,- you pay 21% + handling by carrier
Above ā¬150,- you pay 21% + importtax ( 4.2 % ) + handling by carrier
if you buy something in China for ā¬23,- free shipping, it is theoretically possible that you must pay an
extra ā¬13,21 when the packet arrives
to avoid that, most people split their orders in multiple small orders with a value below ā¬22,-, but be carefull, leave some days between every small order, because if not the seller will ship it in one package and youāll have the same problem.
Umm Rak is now selling a package deal for the gateway inc a Raspberry Pi B+ and adapter all for ā¬142
clever ā¦ why the SMA connector on the converter board ?
For an optional GPS antenna, thereās a module footprint (SIM28M?) next to it
yep, that must be it
I canāt help but think theyāre taking it through the paces of being compliance tested with this shieldless picā¦ (Maybe Iām just being hopeful.) I saw itās from Ken himself, so maybeā¦
My RAK831 order is still yet to be shipped, hereās hoping it arrives soon.
The hackster tutorial also works with this Raspberry Pi1B+?, I have not been able make it work for 915MHz
A flat 13ā¬ processing fee? Thatās lucky. Last time they got me with the import taxes I had to pay 20% VAT plus 20% āprocessing feesāā¦ on a 300ā¬+ shipment. 60ā¬ for scanning the packageās sticker, why thank you very much!
Honestly at this point Iād rather pay a fineā¦
Someone has managed to set the RAK831 to 915MHz correctly give me some tips, I thank you for your help in advance, I think mine is faulty.
what would be the best path to follow if I want to start a script on boot that reads the gateway log and show (regulary) some info on a I2C display (and donāt interfere with the SPI GW activity)
systemd
initd
autorun
Hi LoRanians,
Yesterday received my RAK831 package.
Now Iām trying to get it to work ā¦
I connected the RPi as in this post.
I installed the binary form github as suggested by @Epyon
If I try to start the packet-forwarder I get three errorsā¦
# packet-forwarder start --config /etc/packet-forwarder/ttn-pkt-fwd.yml
INFO Packet Forwarder for LoRa Gateway HALVersionInfo=Version: 4.0.0; Options: native;
INFO Found gateway parameters, getting frequency plans AuthServer=https://account.thethingsnetwork.org GatewayID=aandewiel URL=https://account.thethingsnetwork.org/api/v2/frequency-plans/EU_863_870
INFO Refreshed account server information TokenExpiry=2017-11-30 10:51:10.815681467 +0100 CET
INFO Connecting to TTN discovery server Address=discover.thethingsnetwork.org:1900
INFO Connected to discovery server - getting router address
INFO Connecting to router... RouterID=ttn-router-eu
INFO Downlinks queuing routine started
INFO SX1301 board configured ClockSource=1 LorawanPublic=true
INFO Configured TX Lut Indexes=16
INFO Radio configured EnabledTX=true Frequency=867500000 RSSIOffset=-166 Radio=0 Type=SX1257
INFO Radio configured EnabledTX=false Frequency=868500000 RSSIOffset=-166 Radio=1 Type=SX1257
INFO LoRa multi-SF channel configured Freq=-400000 Lora multi-SF channel=0 RFChain=1
INFO LoRa multi-SF channel configured Freq=-200000 Lora multi-SF channel=1 RFChain=1
INFO LoRa multi-SF channel configured Freq=0 Lora multi-SF channel=2 RFChain=1
INFO LoRa multi-SF channel configured Freq=-400000 Lora multi-SF channel=3 RFChain=0
INFO LoRa multi-SF channel configured Freq=-200000 Lora multi-SF channel=4 RFChain=0
INFO LoRa multi-SF channel configured Freq=0 Lora multi-SF channel=5 RFChain=0
INFO LoRa multi-SF channel configured Freq=200000 Lora multi-SF channel=6 RFChain=0
INFO LoRa multi-SF channel configured Freq=400000 Lora multi-SF channel=7 RFChain=0
INFO LoRa standard channel configured
INFO FSK channel configured
WARN No GPS chip configured, ignoring
INFO Starting concentrator... DateTime=2017-08-29 11:51:11.284164306 +0200 CEST
ERROR: Failed to load fw 1
ERROR: Version of calibration firmware not expected, actual:0 expected:2
ERROR The program ended following a failure error=Failed to start concentrator
#
What am I doing wrong?
Help is much appreciated!
---- EDIT -----
This seems to do the trick: āreset-pin 25
# packet-forwarder start -v --config /etc/packet-forwarder/ttn-pkt-fwd.yml --reset-pin 25
Mind you!!! To add to the confusion: āreset-pin 25 does not set pin 25 of the gpio header as reset pin, but GPIO25!!! Which is actualy pin 22.
That dependsā¦ what OS + version are you using on the RPi? If itās raspbian Jessie I would suggest systemd.
So did you get it working?