Rak7289 to helium

Manjo · December 22, 2022, 7:16pm

Hallo,
I want to connect an Rak7289 to the helium network, but I can‘t find any explenation or tutorial. Is there somebody how cloud help me

Greeds

Hobo · December 22, 2022, 8:45pm

Hey,

Are you referring to making a Data-only Hotspot which will not get rewards from Witnessing. This is the only way you can use RAK7268 on the Helium network.

Regards
Vladislav

Manjo · December 22, 2022, 8:56pm

Yes this is what I found out until now.

Hobo · December 23, 2022, 2:17pm

Hey,

Try this one:

github.com

HoBoWAN/Helium-Data-Only-Hotspot/blob/main/README.md

# 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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It is a guide for the V1, but should get you started.

Regards
Vladislav

Manjo · February 23, 2023, 7:52am

Hallo, thank you yes this worked to enable the data only hotspot.
but now I m trying to register it.

I found this site,

but I stacked at the point of Register the Gateway on Helium network. I wanted to use my wallet but it seams I need to create a command line wallet.
Now I searching a way to install it using busy box.

Hobo · February 23, 2023, 10:07am

Hey @Manjo ,

This is the oficial doc, it is not very difficult to use the CLI wallet, just foloow the instructions in the link:

If you follow that article from disk91 you will be able to pay the feed (I used this exact one that first time I did this too).
You will have to pay both the onboarding and location assertion feed.

Regards
Vladislav