I have a RAK2287 Pi Hat which I am using for a commercial project, and I was wondering if it is able to be supported by AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN.
I don’t immediately see a way to do this with the RAK common for gateway software and configuration files, so was hoping someone could give me some guidance here on the best way to connect to AWS.
When setting up the gateway for AWS it seems to require certificates to be uploaded, and I also don’t see a way to do with with the default RAK gateway and software configuration.
The AWS IoT Core documentation seems to say you need to be running a “basicstation” packet forwarder.
I’m not entirely clear what the state of support for basicstation on the RAK2287 is (perhaps there’s already an official path I’m overlooking)
The upstream repo, GitHub - lorabasics/basicstation: LoRa Basics™ Station - The LoRaWAN Gateway Software has support for the SX1302 chip and the RF support parts used in the RAK2287, and there are hints in that repo that people are using it to operate the RAK2287, however I don’t know if the differences surrounding things like the missing temperature sensor (vs the Semtech reference design) are fully handled there - if not that might take a little work.
Also it could take some work to get the GPS interface setup, if you need the GPS for timestamping or otherwise.
If you want to pursue this more, I’d search for info on using basicstation on the RAK2287, more than anything related to AWS IoT Core specifically.