Just a question, I have ordered much the same setup, but I noticed the anteni shows a gain of 10db, and I do believe the max we can use is 2.5dbi Have a got this right, if so I’ll have to get a different one
David I don't know if you will get this, but you have just saved my Bacon, I was wondering how all these connections came together in the Gateway, Now if I knew how to find the two white waterproof plugs that you are using for the cables at bottom of box , My whole world would come together. I'm making my Antenna out of a 36" Tig welding Copper plated rod, I hope it works.
Very good and well define Instructions on Build. Does anyone know where I can purchase the Daughter Board that goes in between the Pi and RAK831, I already have a RAK831, and I don't want to have to purchase a whole Kit. I have searched the whole Internet and None to be found. RAKwireless can't help me, they want to sell a new Kit
Interesting build Dave. Pretty much identical spec to my gateway (TTN @ Kilpedder, Wicklow) with similar hardware. I have the antenna mounted on a pole with the hardware at the bottom of the 5m pole. This end works well and I have had packets from about 20km. Plenty of testing at the node end to see what works or not and what is best for node placement and antennas. Give me a shout via TTN if you want to chat/share info?
About 10 miles with a small handheld transmitter. If I had good line of sight, I'd probably get much further. I must get out to do some more testing soon!
hello, Iam testing lora communication by using RN2483 PICTAIL LoRa module, i bought two of those lora modules can they communicate directly without any gateway in between? please reply ASAP , thankyou in advance
8 channel with max 1% duty cycle would result in 800 time slots ie. 400 devices when the gw acks packets. If the devices send less than constantly (say a message every hour), it takes quite a few devices.
Dave, out of interest...why did you choose the RAK gateway and not the ic880a? Also why 10dbi antenna? I am just about to order a 5dbi antenna so I will wait!
It was the cheapest option available that I could find for a full 8-channel gateway. And it had an adapter for the Pi (even though the first adapter they sent me had a design flaw, but they quickly sent me out a replacement).
Oh, and on the antenna, The 10dBi antenna selection was kind of arbitrary. Although I did want to get decent range out of it, hence my leaning towards double digit gain. I didn't want to have to replace it in the future, as it's difficult to re-do the waterproofing.
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Lots of care gone into this, fantastic build! Would love to see how it all looks mounted and operating.
Thanks man for your idea sharing...
Thanks Dave. I am currently building my own LoRaWAN gateway so these videos are a great help.
Any plans on doing a video showing the software setup?
Just a question, I have ordered much the same setup, but I noticed the anteni shows a gain of 10db, and I do believe the max we can use is 2.5dbi
Have a got this right, if so I’ll have to get a different one
David I don't know if you will get this, but you have just saved my Bacon, I was wondering how all these connections came together in the Gateway, Now if I knew how to find the two white waterproof plugs that you are using for the cables at bottom of box , My whole world would come together.
I'm making my Antenna out of a 36" Tig welding Copper plated rod, I hope it works.
Very good and well define Instructions on Build.
Does anyone know where I can purchase the Daughter Board that goes in between the Pi and RAK831, I already have a RAK831, and I don't want to have to purchase a whole Kit.
I have searched the whole Internet and None to be found. RAKwireless can't help me, they want to sell a new Kit
Interesting build Dave. Pretty much identical spec to my gateway (TTN @ Kilpedder, Wicklow) with similar hardware. I have the antenna mounted on a pole with the hardware at the bottom of the 5m pole. This end works well and I have had packets from about 20km. Plenty of testing at the node end to see what works or not and what is best for node placement and antennas. Give me a shout via TTN if you want to chat/share info?
Hi Dave, looks like an interesting project. Could you place a list of all the components you used in the description? Cheers!
Michael, I've added a list of the components to the description, plus a link to a lot of the stuff on Aliexpress.
Brilliant. Am thinking this setup may help increase communication range with a drone.
Hi Dave, very interesting video. Just curious as to what range/distance you were able to achieve. Thanks, Rob.
About 10 miles with a small handheld transmitter. If I had good line of sight, I'd probably get much further. I must get out to do some more testing soon!
Hi, I would like to know if this module works out in +40 c? Have you performed any thermal tests?
Hi. Did you use this gateway? What range(in km) it's have?
Where you placed your gateway?
hello, Iam testing lora communication by using RN2483 PICTAIL LoRa module, i bought two of those lora modules can they communicate directly without any gateway in between? please reply ASAP , thankyou in advance
Amazing job!
How many devices can I connect to this gateway?
8 channel with max 1% duty cycle would result in 800 time slots ie. 400 devices when the gw acks packets. If the devices send less than constantly (say a message every hour), it takes quite a few devices.
Dave, out of interest...why did you choose the RAK gateway and not the ic880a? Also why 10dbi antenna? I am just about to order a 5dbi antenna so I will wait!
It was the cheapest option available that I could find for a full 8-channel gateway. And it had an adapter for the Pi (even though the first adapter they sent me had a design flaw, but they quickly sent me out a replacement).
Oh, and on the antenna, The 10dBi antenna selection was kind of arbitrary. Although I did want to get decent range out of it, hence my leaning towards double digit gain. I didn't want to have to replace it in the future, as it's difficult to re-do the waterproofing.
Thanks for the reply. I have been over to the TTN conference in Amsterdam and only just catching up on my posts...cheers
Hi Dave, what is the range that you able to get with your setup?
can anyone tell me range of this setup with respect to ic880a
So.. And this use for what? (amateur help us to understand some how)
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10 dBi ???
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