I’m looking for an off the shelf LoRa gateway that’s as simple to setup as a typical home wifi router. I just want to plug in an ethernet cable that is attached to my home network, hit a web interface of some kind to do any necessary setup, and have a Lora gateway up and running. The few products like this I’ve found are either out of stock or $300+.
I’m not opposed to building a solution of my own from something like this [Lora gateway board, but it seems like I’m somehow unable to find a reasonably priced off the shelf gateway.
Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!](SparkFun LoRa Gateway - 1-Channel (ESP32) - WRL-18074 - SparkFun Electronics)
Long ago I worked with the https://www.dragino.com/products/lora/i … lg01n.html. Maybe read some documents that I wrote at the time… https://github.com/paulvha/lorawan/tree … 1_downlink as background and before considering.
Thanks for the reply. I forgot to mention that I’m looking for a gateway that will work with LoRaWan. Since posting yesterday I’ve learned that LoRaWan requires an 8 channel gateway, so neither the board I linked to above nor the Dragino device you mentioned are going to work for this project.
Indeed normally on Lorawan, there are different channels and the board connecting to Lorawan is using channel hopping not to take all bandwidth of a single channel and share the channels with other devices. BUT you do NOT have to: You can also set it to a single frequency to be used, by initializing all the channels the same. That is what these boards and the Dragino do.