by agame » Thu Aug 18, 2022 1:18 am
For some time i've been wanting to locate some sensors and a relay over 500m from nearest wifi/mains power.
I've achieved the first phase of this with great success using LoraWAN, which is capable of 10km outdoor range with relatively inexpensive hardware and no network costs. Currently I have sensor monitoring, working. next phase is implementing the relays (controlling a solar pump).
Given the increasing availability and affordability of LoraWAN network and devices in their various forms, it would make a lot of sense to have simple Indigo integration supporting one or more of the major LoraWAN network servers (I am using a local instance of the open source Chirpstack server, but others would include clould platforms ie TheThingsNetwork and Helium). I've rigged up communication between Indigo and Chirpstack leveraging MQTT and node-red ( in the process learning far more about javascript than I ever intended...)
I can't find any threads on this topic so thought it might be worth checking no-one else is going down this track?
My gateway setup is an 8-channel RAK2445 RPi hat on a RPi3, running the full Chirpstack stack as private LoraWAN network (there is no public coverage of TTN etc at this remote location). I am testing a number of remote nodes, including Dragino, the very impressive LoPy4. MQTT is quite integral to LoraWAN so the integration is actually quite straight forward once everything is correctly configured!
For some time i've been wanting to locate some sensors and a relay over 500m from nearest wifi/mains power.
I've achieved the first phase of this with great success using LoraWAN, which is capable of 10km outdoor range with relatively inexpensive hardware and no network costs. Currently I have sensor monitoring, working. next phase is implementing the relays (controlling a solar pump).
Given the increasing availability and affordability of LoraWAN network and devices in their various forms, it would make a lot of sense to have simple Indigo integration supporting one or more of the major LoraWAN network servers (I am using a local instance of the open source Chirpstack server, but others would include clould platforms ie TheThingsNetwork and Helium). I've rigged up communication between Indigo and Chirpstack leveraging MQTT and node-red ( in the process learning far more about javascript than I ever intended...)
I can't find any threads on this topic so thought it might be worth checking no-one else is going down this track?
My gateway setup is an 8-channel RAK2445 RPi hat on a RPi3, running the full Chirpstack stack as private LoraWAN network (there is no public coverage of TTN etc at this remote location). I am testing a number of remote nodes, including Dragino, the very impressive LoPy4. MQTT is quite integral to LoraWAN so the integration is actually quite straight forward once everything is correctly configured!