Does anyone have technical data on the origional kick starter gateway? I have one here that I bought under the impression that it was new but it turns out that it’s not and it doesnt seem to work properly. It stops working after a few hours. I have access to a test engineer’s lab at an electronics p…

I have seen these sources. The explaination of the LEDs does not include the combination I see happening. I’ve reseated the print and swaped the power supply. I have the schematic and PCB designs too. I need something a bit more technical though. The device boots up and comes online, it sends and re…

I have spent two evenings reading the forums and seeing much frustration from many others who have problems, what I don’t see is solutions. I mean min runs for a while then does the same that a bunch of other people say. Led 1&2 with the 3rd flashing then reboots. If I unplug it for a bit then it wi…

[image] Jonthan: I have the schematic and PCB designs too. I need something a bit more technical though. The schematics and sources are available, surely you can’t get more technical than that. There is no maintenance manual or anything like it. The USB port was meant for future expansion or…

No, I am running it wired. I am sure I have a 3.3v serial port dongle somewhere. I’ll put it on there and see what I can see. I bought it of someone on marktplats (you know the one?) so it’s a bit of a hassel to go back complaining, I mean he sold it was “new in the box” but the actual purchase date…

[image] Jonthan: the big chip on that daughter board Thats the SX1301 - the Semtech LoRa Baseband chip - and yes it gets warm, also the heart of the system :slight_smile: Mine run fine from day one and apart from occational power outages (from which it seems to recover well) or a couple of B…

[image] Jonthan: Or revision on the BOM making later models more reliable? AFAIK there haven’t been revisions, by the time the device was finally ready for the market technology had moved on and there were better solutions. This gateway was part of a Kickstarter that got things started and th…

it was the big chip on that daughter board. It looks like documentation on the LG8271/LG9271 concentrator board is available, so one idea might be to remove that and try to graft it onto another host (perhaps for initial bench tests, a raspberry pi, but better something more robust with multiple …

I sliced the pad in two that glues it down, squezed the plastic tabs together and gently removed it. Inspected the pins and pads, they all look find. Replaced the board… rince and repeat. It ran for about 6hrs before it went down. I looked at the schematic and noticed it looks to me like the power i…

[image] Jonthan: After cycling the power it was okay again. Made me suspect something in the PSU circuit but I will have to print it all out and go through it with a fine tooth comb. Realistically that sounds a lot more like a software state problem than a hardware one. The other thing that …

I do need to leave it unplugged for a while, if i just cycle the power it doesn’t come back up. When I first got it on the origional 12V supply it would run for an hour, two tops then konk out. My other (DIY-Pi) gateway stays running but I don’t run them at the same time cause they are next to each…

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