Connect LoRa Gateway to The Thing Network
Summary
This documentation describes how to setup a Lorix One antenna as a Lorawan Gateway and connect it to The Things Network
Requirements
The Lorix One antenna need to be mounted outdoors. It is powered by PoE. You should use a surge protector like Ethernet Surge Protector ETH-SP-G2 with it.
You also need to setup your network accordingly. The gateway need outgoing access to the internet on the UDP port 1700 and must be able to receive answers from that port. Standard access to HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, NTP is highly recommended. For administration, Port 22 on the antenna has to be reachable.
Description
Step 1
The device comes with a Yocto Linux OS.
It is configured to the IP address 192.168.1.50 (configured at it at /etc/network/interfaces) and an open SSH port with the default credentials admin:lorix4u. Change them immediately after login.
During the first configuration you should update the device
sudo opkg update sudo opkg upgrade sudo opkg clean
(there might be some error messages due to obsolete packages, which can safely be ignored)
Used Hardware
Lorix One LoRa Gateway IP65 with Outdoot antenna 4.15 dBi Ethernet Surge Protector ETH-SP-G2
Courses
- A course where this documentation was used (2017, 2018)
- Another one (2018)