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Hi @Leondegeling, I saw the debug log you sent us and notified our team about it. Iā€™ll ping them again to see if they found anything.

As for the source code, our colleagues are also working on getting the source code ready for open source, as @wienkegiezeman said in a different topic:

Iā€™ll see if I can get that list of reboot reasons.

Acording to gateway board specification:
Frequency Band - LG9271 902.000 MHz to 928.000 MHz
Frequency Band - LG8271 863.000 MHz to 870.000 MHz

I think IN865 channel plan is covered by the 868 gateway.

Thanks for the link Nestor. Iā€™d seen that the hardware covers it, the question was more about how deep Iā€™d need to go in software to enable it. I.e.
Option A - existing software will cover it, via changed config settings
Option B - would need to modify source and rebuild new image

Opt A would be available immediately, opt B would depend on the discussions above about availability of the open source.

I look forward to finding out

Thanks

You can change the frequency plan of your gateway in the console. The next time the gateway restarts it will use the new frequency plan. Future frequency plans will be added to https://github.com/TheThingsNetwork/gateway-conf/ after which they can be selected and installed on the gateways.

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Hello Folks, with the help of people of the core team I just now managed to connect my gateway to TTN. The lora board seemed to be well in place but I found that with a little force I could wiggle it around slightly and push it in just a bit further. After powering up it registered with TTN and now the console says the gateway is connected. I canā€™t wait for my first message. Thanks everyone for the support.

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TheThingsGateway_small
FedEx shipped package arrived today
unpacked - connected - setup - running
b.t.w. the black backside should be covered later at my sunny place otherwise the things will melt :wink:

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iā€™m in a bootloop as well. all leds flashing. tried all resets, except full serial wipe. ether & wifi tried. farnell.

it connects to account.thethingsnetwork.org then it looks like 2 https requests and then bootloop.

Did you try what seems to have worked for Leondegeling: ā€œThe lora board seemed to be well in place but I found that with a little force I could wiggle it around slightly and push it in just a bit further.ā€ ?

yes. did not budge.

Big thanks to everyone who worked on this in the past 2 years.
Fedex delivered my Gateway today; no problems at all to get it up and running.
Node took me some extra work; till I decided to grab a Laptop and not try and do it on an old 2008Server
it now pings itā€™s 24.88 Celcuis hereā€¦ good argument to get me a cold beer.

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i did remove the radioboard from the struts and pulled it out and pushed it in again. no improvement.
i changed the firmware update setting from yes to no in the console. no improvement.

removed the gateway registration in the console, and tried it all over, no improvment

after ā€˜waiting for gateway xxxxx to check inā€¦ā€™ on led 3 slow flashing, all blue leds lit. then gpio 1 on radiocard turns on, off, all leds off except 1 near powerinlet, all blues and gpio 1 turn on ā€¦ ad infinitum.

Thanks for the updatesā€¦ As someone anticipating getting a shipping notice some day soon, Iā€™m eager to know solutions for the type of problem youā€™re encountering and hope that the core team will be in touch with you shortly to attempt a solution, if that hasnā€™t commenced already. Will be grateful to know details if and when a solution is found.

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My gateway did the exactly the same thing.
I then connected my sparkfun basic breakout module to read the debugging output from the uart. In the output I found that the reboot occurred when the gateway was reconfiguring the lora-card.
Then Marten wrote:

In my case applying some force was the solution, in your case the loraboard might be bad.
I would try to readout the uart debugging and determine at what step the device reboots, that does greatly improve pinpointing the cause of the problem. (see description in faq). If you need help doing this, let me know.

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thanks @Leondegeling, all debugging tools available here. judging from the bend the radioboard needs in order to be lifted from the studs, it might very well be hairline fractures caused by the assembly process. Considering the cost, its going for RMA, and iā€™m rethinking other solutions.

Hi @wienkegiezeman,
I have the same problem with not possible to activate. WIFI connection seems ok. But third LED is slowly blinking then stops and after 1-2 sec it reboots.
PerryGatewaySettings

I hope there are other options I can try out.
Thanks!
Perry

Another hint not mentioned before, when i managed to load the /info url in the browser, i only once saw it displayed at : ā€œGateway Card:ā€. The rest of the time it showed ā€œGateway card: NDā€. So i guess the communication with the card is not what it should be. Also seen @PerryVanDerMeeren.

One positive observation on TTN Gateway: It does only forward ttn packets. On my multitech conduit forwarder there are forwarded any packets where less than 10% are addressed to ttn. Will check how filtering is possible at multitech forwarder.

the TTN gateway drops the non TTN packets ?? thatā€™s new infoā€¦ so how you think roaming will work in the near future @kersing

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