pawel
(Pawel Blachut)
August 16, 2024, 9:52am
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Hi,
Can anyone point me to a readme describing how to setup a Helium Data-only hotsport on RAK7268CV? I found many inconsistencies in the following:
# Turn the RAKwireless WisGate Edge Lite 2 into a Helium Data-Only hotspot
Using a Data-Only Hotspot provides you with the ability to contribute to expanding the Helium network providing coverage to end-node devices at a relatively low price point, which is always good.
A Data-Only Helium hotspot is essentially a LoRaWAN gateway that relays data and consequently earns token rewards for its packet transfer services.
It should be mentioned that such a hotspot will not provide you with any Proof of Coverage (PoC) rewards, due to the fact that it cannot be challenged by a validator to send beacons or witness. This is not a full Helium hotspots and it will receive substantially less HNT as earnings.
In this article we will be discussing the transformation of a RAKwireless WisGate Edge Lite 2 (RAK7268) gateway into a Data-Only Helium Hotspot. The gateway in question comes at a very affordable price and is therefore an ideal point of entry for anyone looking to contribute to the expansion of The People's Network.
In order to convert the RAK7268 to a Data-only Hotspot we would need to have the following accomplished:
- Have the RAK7268 properly set up to work in your frequency region (EU868 in this example)
- Have the LoRa Packet Forwarder pointed to the right address and port (in this case the local loopback address)
- Install the Helium miner service so the packet forwarder can send packet data to it and in turn it can send it to the Helium back-end server
Once the above are all accounted for your gateway will be able to forward Data packets coming from an end-node registered with the [Helium Console](https://console.helium.com/welcome). We will have follow up articles on the topic.
## Setting up the gateway
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My gateway runs on WisGateOS2.2.1 … not sure if this matters.
Nikola
(Nikola Semov)
August 19, 2024, 8:14am
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Hello @pawel ,
Here is what I found on the topic. I’m unsure if it is working or if changes have been made along the way, but it should be close enough.
Regards,
Nikola Semov
pawel
(Pawel Blachut)
August 19, 2024, 1:04pm
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hi @Nikola , seen that one already, but unfortunatelly it points me to the same resource I have used so far.
I went that far but got stuck … not sure if RAK7268 is a supported target for gateway-rs