RAK811 Error: 99

[Avishek (Avishek Hardin)]

Hi Team,

Greetings and Good day, trust you doing good.

Issue:

I have provisioned one RAK811 LoRaWAN device on TheThingsStack V3, the parameters that I have used for the RAK811 are as follows:

As you can see from the snapshot below the RAK811 is not able to latch/join to the LoRaWAN network using the “at+join” command, it’s after the 4th try that the RAK811 was able to join the network with “OK Join Success”.

The Network Layer has been set as follows:

can you please advise what is wrong with my setup??

Setup:

Server:

Details:

Many thanks for your help,
Bet Regards,

[carlrowan]

Hi @Avishek ,

Can you check your channels which are open and close using this command at+get_config=lora:channel?

When joining in EU868, channels 0,1 and 2 are the joining frequency so all must be off.

You can use this command to turn off other channels that are on at+set_config=lora:ch_mask:X:Y where X is the channel number and for Y it can be 1=on or 0=off.

Let say channel 3 is open and we need to close that, you will use the at+set_config=lora:ch_mask:3:0 command.

[Avishek (Avishek Hardin)]

@carlrowan

at+set_config=lora:ch_mask:3:0

Hi Carl,

Thanks for your swift response and continuous support.

you can refer to the snapshot before turning off Channels 8,9,10,11,12 using the command at+get_config=lora:channel to query for the available channel

After turning off Channels 8,9,10,11,12 using commands that you mentioned
at+set_config=lora:ch_mask:8:0
at+set_config=lora:ch_mask:9:0
at+set_config=lora:ch_mask:10:0
at+set_config=lora:ch_mask:11:0
at+set_config=lora:ch_mask:12:0

I am now able to latch/join the LoRaWAN Stack v3 right away

Indeed many thanks for your help in resolving this issue

In addition, can you please confirm, once “Join Success” to LoRaWAN Stack v3, I should turn ON Channels 8,9,10,11,12 to allow uplink traffic right?

Many thanks,
Best Regards

[carlrowan]

No need to turn on the channels again.

It will be automatically set once you successfully joined.

You can check again the channels if you want to confirm

[Avishek (Avishek Hardin)]

@carlrowan

joining frequency

Hi Carl,

Yes, indeed you are right!!
Just now, I did the testing you can refer to the snapshot below.

you are a genius man!! keep it up!!
thanks,
Best Regards,