Hello all. Starting do scan through the forum, it is a littlle bit confusing. My question is: which packet forwarder should I use with RPI3/IC880a. At the moment, I run poly_pkt_fwd version 2.1 , but there may have been some progress since it was released.

It doesn’t matter too much in term of end result… If you want to be a bit more ‘modern’ in term of architecture you can use the Semtech packet forwarder updated and maintained by @kersing here . I have recently upgraded one of mine from Legacy to Semtech, it is pretty pretty straightforward, I can …

@Amedee , thank you for the swift reply. The traffic monitor option is indeed interesting. When you say: “pretty straightforward”, do you mean: just cloning the repository and running the install scripts?. Where do you keep the previous set-up, since the install place seems to be the same?

My initial setup was based on the excellent From zero to LoRaWAN in a weekend howto. For the “upgrade”, I wanted to be able to try and go back if things were going wrong… The easiest way to isolate environments is to use Docker. @jpmeijers maintains a GitHub repo to run Jac’s packet forwarder on r…

Just to avoid confusion: Semtech is legacy my software is Multi Protocol packet forwarder, based on poly forwarder with TTN connector protocol (same as used by TTN gateways) added and updated to use the latest Semtech libraries for the concentrator boards.

For a RPi you can always clone the SDcard to a second one and swap cards depending on which software you want to run…

Providing you have easy access to your gateway :wink:

While experimenting that is always a good idea. You never know when you mess up and need to reimage the card… (I also had two cards die on me over the years using RPis)

Thanks to all. Using several cards is surely a good approach. And yes. at the moment I run it in an open frame, just everything fixed to a metal bracket avoiding stress to the cables & connectors…

@Amedee Thanks again. I tried the Kerising packet forwarder. Installation went well so far, but the behaviour is unclear. When started from the command line, it forwards uplink messages, but does not forward downlink messages. If gets the RESP message, but does not send it to the concentrator. When…

There are some of gotchas, in particular if you have a RPi3 Ensure you reset the ic880a before you start the packet forwarder Set core_freq=250 in /boot/config.txt to avoid variable SPI speed Set dtoverlay=pi3-miniuart-bt in /boot/config.txt to get Bluetooth out of the way That should do it.

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Amedee (Amedee) March 25, 2018, 12:56pm 7

Providing you have easy access to your gateway