The last days I had some time to setup my RAK7258 gateway and lora nodes RAK7205. The TTN setup was straight forward and easy to handle.
Gateway is on the latest firmware 1.1.0045_Release r176 and I use Power over Ethernet.
The maximum range I could get with TTN mapper was 300m. So I tested the Nodes in an urban area and successfully transmitted packages over 3 KM. So the Node is not the problem.
When I remove the antenna from the gateway the coverage is only a view meters. So it looks like the antenna is working.
Maybe there is a problem with the Firmware / Hardware / Configuration?
Any ideas?
Hi @Agrikula,
First of all the latest firmware is r180, this should not matter, but better to be up to date.
Can you give us a little more context :freq band, power settings, nodes, channels, etc.
Perhaps some logs.
Thank you for the fast reply!
Will test also with the new Firmware.
I use the TTN 868MHz EU Band.
TTN Server: router.eu.thethings.network Semtech UDP
The Node is a RAK7205 with AT firmware 3.0.0.3.H
Thank you, would love to check the logs, on first glance however I see you are using 867.4MHz, which is not a part of the eu868 ttn plan. Also you are missi g the 867.9MHz. Start by setting the gateway plan properly and we will seem what comes next
Firmware update done
Reconfigured TTN EU868 frequency plan and rebooted gateway
At the moment the distance is 300m (inhouse standard windows)
Node LOG:
[LoRa]: LORA_EVENT_UNKNOWN 4
Go to Sleep.
Wake up.
Battery Voltage = 4.200 V
ACC X: 0 mg, Y: -256 mg, Z: -256 mg
Humidity:48.0 %RH
pressure:993.0 hPa
Temperature:27.0 degree
[LoRa]: Send out [LoRa]: LORA_EVENT_UNKNOWN 4
Go to Sleep.
Gateway LOG:
Fri Aug 16 20:22:29 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: src/jitqueue.c:452:jit_print_queue(): INFO: [jit] queue is empty
Fri Aug 16 20:22:29 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]:
JSON up: {“stat”:{“time”:“2019-08-16 18:22:29 UTC”,“lati”:48.xxxxx,“long”:16.xxxxx,“alti”:210,“rxnb”:0,“rxok”:0,“rxfw”:0,“ackr”:100.0,“dwnb”:0,“txnb”:0,“cpur”:0.0,“memr”:0.0}}
Fri Aug 16 20:22:29 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: INFO: [up] PUSH_ACK received in 58 ms Fri Aug 16 20:22:51 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: INFO: Received pkt CRC BAD
Fri Aug 16 20:22:52 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: INFO: [down] PULL_ACK received in 54 ms
Fri Aug 16 20:22:57 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: INFO: [down] PULL_ACK received in 53 ms
Fri Aug 16 20:22:59 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: src/jitqueue.c:452:jit_print_queue(): INFO: [jit] queue is empty
Fri Aug 16 20:22:59 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]:
JSON up: {“stat”:{“time”:“2019-08-16 18:22:59 UTC”,“lati”:48.xxxxx,“long”:16.xxxxx,“alti”:210,“rxnb”:1,“rxok”:0,“rxfw”:0,“ackr”:100.0,“dwnb”:0,“txnb”:0,“cpur”:0.0,“memr”:0.0}}
Fri Aug 16 20:22:59 2019 user.info lora_pkt_fwd[8242]: INFO: [up] PUSH_ACK received in 55 ms
