Manjo
December 22, 2022, 7:16pm
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Hallo,
Greeds
Hobo
December 22, 2022, 8:45pm
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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
Manjo
December 22, 2022, 8:56pm
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Yes this is what I found out until now.
Hobo
December 23, 2022, 2:17pm
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Hey,
Try this one:
# 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
Manjo
February 23, 2023, 7:52am
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Hallo, thank you yes this worked to enable the data only hotspot.
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.
Hobo
February 23, 2023, 10:07am
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Hey @Manjo ,
This is the oficial doc, it is not very difficult to use the CLI wallet, just foloow the instructions in the link:
Helium Documentation
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).
Regards
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