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== LoPy Nano-gateway and private lora-server installation ==

In this page we are going to:
1.Install open source private LoRa server (by [https://github.com/brocaar Orne Brocaar])

2.Setup LoPy as single channel nano gateway

3.Send data from LoPy node

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1.Install private LoRa server:

We use [https://github.com/brocaar/loraserver-setup LoRa Server Setup] Ansible playbook to install all the LoRa server component:

For testing use vagrant to install the server to virtual machine in our local pc (We will update the guide to deploy later):
*Download and install vagrant to your machine [https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html vagrant download page]
*Install git to your machine
*Clone the LoRa Server Setup repository [https://github.com/brocaar/loraserver-setup#vagrant Reference]:
  git clone https://github.com/brocaar/loraserver-setup.git
*Go to loraserver-setup folder (In terminal or CMD)
  cd loraserver-setup
*Run vagrant up
  vagrant up
*The virtual machine will boot and install all the component (This can take a while)
*Note: we can access the server web interface at https://localhost:8080/ (As a self-signed certificate is used, your browser will prompt that the certificate can't be trusted. This is ok for testing)
*We can use our machine IP address and port 1700 for our gateway to forward the package (We do this later in setup LoPy as Nano Gateway below)

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2.Setup LoPy as a Single channel nano gateway: (Reference [https://forum.pycom.io/topic/810/new-firmware-release-1-6-7-b1-lorawan-nano-gateway-with-ttn-example Pycom Forum] [https://github.com/pycom/pycom-libraries/tree/master/examples/lorawan-nano-gateway Github Code]

*Update LoPy firmware to 1.6.7.b1
*Download the code
*Edit the config.py file to setup: Gateway ID, Server IP, Server Port, Wifi Access Point for LoPy to connect to the network.
  GATEWAY_ID = '11aa334455bb7788'
  SERVER = 'ip.address.here'
  PORT = 1700
  WIFI_SSID = 'my-wifi'
  WIFI_PASS = 'my-wifi-password'
**Note: We can get gateway id by execute these code in LoPy (Referenece [https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/devices/lopy/usage.html TTN]):
  from network import LoRa
  import binascii
  lora = LoRa(mode=LoRa.LORAWAN)
  print(binascii.hexlify(lora.mac()).upper().decode('utf-8'))
*Copy the code to the 'flash' folder of LoPy:
  Via FTP:
  Follow this reference to connect to LoPy via FTP [https://docs.pycom.io/pycom_esp32/pycom_esp32/toolsandfeatures.html?highlight=ftp#pycom-filesystem pycom]
*Reset LoPy

We should be able to see the message from gateway from MQTT server with this topic (Reference [https://docs.loraserver.io/lora-gateway-bridge/topics/ loraserver]):
 mosquitto_sub -t "gateway/#" -v

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3.Send data from LoPy node:

*Register node in server

*Send data from node (LoPy)

*Subscribe to node data from server:

== LoPy Nano-gateway and private Lora-server experiments ==