The required components are shown below. You can find order information at Requirements & Environment section.
Female-Female Jumper Cables
868MHz Antenna
IMST IC808A Concentrator
Antenna Cable
Raspberry Pi 3
Start by connecting the antenna to the IC808A module with the antenna cable, as shown in the following figure.
To finish the preparation of the hardware, you need to make 8 connections between Raspi & IC808A concentrator as shown in the following figure. Pin connections are also listed in the table below.
*Please visit Raspberry Documentation for Raspi Pins.
The complete hardware setup is shown below. Before applying DC power, make sure that:
If you are facing connection issues, remove power immediately and check your wiring.
Make sure to use a 5V power supply and a 2A cable.
During this task, you will prepare the Raspi OS for the Basics™ Station packet forwarder (which will be installed at Step 3).
This procedure is divided in three sub-tasks:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Raspberry PI OS (32bit)
i. Set hostname (accept raspberrypi.local)
ii. Enable ssh (use password authentication)
iii. Enter “pipass” as password for “pi” user
iv. Configure wifi (SSID & password + country)
v. Set local settings
vi. Save settings
SSH is used to access the Raspi device. We also use PuTTY to link SSH to the gateway.
Since IC808A communicates with Raspi with SPI interface , SPI interface should be enabled.
In this step , you going to install the necessary software packages to make your new gateway ready for configuration of the packet forwarder for ThingPark Community. Two software packages must be installed to the Raspberry Pi:
LoRa Gateway is the Hardware Abstraction Library (HAL) provided by Semtech® which enables the Raspberry Pi to access the IC808A concentrator over the SPI port. The HAL provides a low level API to control the LoRa SX130x gateway concentrator RF chip. The LoRa Basics™ Station application uses the HAL to receive LoRaWAN® uplinks and transmit LoRaWAN® downlinks, under control of the Network Server. The configuration of the LoRa Basics™ Station packet forwarder to interface with ThingPark Community will be explained at STEP 4.
git clone https://github.com/Lora-net/lora_gateway.git
It will create the lora_gateway directory which will contain the LoRa Basics Station source code.
cd ~/lora_gateway
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/pi/lora_gateway/util_spectral_scan‘
git clone https://github.com/lorabasics/basicstation.git
A directory called ~/basicstation will be created.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/basicstation/build-rpi-std/s2core'
During this task, you will test that:
Finally, you must retrieve the “EUI” of the IC808A, which will be used during Step 5 to form the unique identifier of the new gateway on ThingPark Community.
* It is assumed that GPIO25 is connected to RST pin of the IC880A
cp -r ../examples/live-s2.sm.tc/cups.uri
cp -r ../examples/live-s2.sm.tc/cups.trust
cp -r ../examples/live-s2.sm.tc/station.conf
This certificate contains a public key that is used by Basics Station packet forwarder to validate the identify of the CUPS server.
In this step, you are going to provision the new gateway on ThingPark Community using the administration console.
i. A 6 digit prefix has been assigned to Basics Station packet forwarders: 0016C0
ii. The rest of the UUID is formed by appending the "station EUI" retrieved in Step 4(e), in our demo board: "b827:ebff:fefc:a835"
iii. The complete LRR UUID is therefore in our example: 0016C0-B827EBFFFEFCA835
i. A 6 digit prefix has been assigned to Basics Station packet forwarders: 0016C0
ii. The rest of the UUID is formed by appending the "station EUI" retrieved in Step 4(e), in our demo board: "b827:ebff:fefc:a835"
iii. The complete LRR UUID is therefore in our example: 0016C0-B827EBFFFEFCA835
i. A 6 digit prefix has been assigned to Basics Station packet forwarders: 0016C0
ii. The rest of the UUID is formed by appending the "station EUI" retrieved in Step 4(e), in our demo board: "b827:ebff:fefc:a835"
iii. The complete LRR UUID is therefore in our example: 0016C0-B827EBFFFEFCA835
You can set it manually as our RF board does not have a GPS.
You can set it manually as our RF board does not have a GPS.
