The Things Network Installer for RisingHF-based gateway

Reference setup for The Things Network gateways based on the RisingHF 915MHz 8-Channel LoRa concentrator with a Raspberry Pi host.

This installer targets the SPI version of the board.

Manual Installation on Raspbian Image

• Connect Raspberry Pi to Ethernet or WiFi

• Use raspi-config utility to enable SPI and also expand the filesystem:

    $ sudo raspi-config
  

• Reboot (it will ask on exit, but you can do it manually with sudo reboot)

• Configure locales and time zone:

    $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
    $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
  

• Optional, you can follow this step if you are using fresh Raspbian image

  Make sure you have an updated installation and install git:

    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get upgrade
    $ sudo apt-get install git
  

• Optional, you can follow this step if you wish to use WiFi instead of Ethernet

  Configure the wifi credentials (check here for additional details)

    $ sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf 
  

  And add the following block at the end of the file, replacing SSID and password to match your network:

    network={
       ssid="The_SSID_of_your_wifi"
       psk="Your_wifi_password"
    }
  

• Clone the installer and start the installation

    $ git clone https://github.com/CytronTechnologies/RisingHF-gateway.git ~/RisingHF-gateway
    $ cd ~/RisingHF-gateway
    $ sudo ./install.sh
  

• By default, AU920-global_conf.json will be used. By declaring which band you are going to use in installation, different global_conf.json will be installed. For more info, please refer to gateway-conf.

  • AU_915 - $ sudo ./install.sh AU_915
  • AU_920 - $ sudo ./install.sh AU_920
  • MY_919 - $ sudo ./install.sh MY_919
  • US_902 - $ sudo ./install.sh US_902

• Big Success! You should now have a running gateway in front of you!

Credits

These scripts are largely based on the awesome work by Ruud Vlaming on the Lorank8 installer.