LoRa Gateway Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to add a LoRa Gateway using a RHF0M301 or RAK831 LoRa Gateway Concentrator Module and a RaspberryPi3.

Install the Raspbian operating system

Use the raspberrypi.org website to download the latest Raspbian Stretch Lite operating system and flash it to the SD card. After booting into the operating system used the raspi-config command to enable the SPI interface. Reboot the OS.

Install the LoRa Packet Forwarder

Download the latest release of the precompiled Packet Forwarder installer (.deb) from the Openchirp repo. Install the package using the dpkg command (sudo dpkg -i lora-gateway-pf_*_armhf.deb) and start the service (sudo systemctl start lora-gateway-pf). Confirm that the service is running (systemctl status lora-gateway-pf)

Install the LoRa Gateway Bridge

Download the latest release of the precompiled LoRa Gateway Bridge installer (lora-gateway-bridge_x.x.x_armhf.deb) from the loraserver.io website.

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