LoPy-nano-gatewy-wan-private

LoPy Nano-gateway and private lora-server installation

In this page we are going to:

• Install open source private LoRa server (by Orne Brocaar)
• Setup LoPy as single channel nano gateway
• Send data from LoPy node

Install private LoRa server:

1. We are going to use the Ansible playbook to setup all the LoRa server dependencies.

Install Ansible (Reference: Ansible Installation
*sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
*sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
*sudo apt-get update
*sudo apt-get install ansible

2. Clone the Ansible Playbook

Install git
*sudo apt-get install git
*sudo git clone https://github.com/brocaar/loraserver-setup
*cd loraserver-setup

// todo: continue

Setup LoPy as a Single channel nano gateway: (Reference Pycom Forum Github Code

• Update LoPy firmware to 1.6.7.b1
• Download the code
• Edit the config.py file to set the IP address and Port of our LoRa server

 SERVER = '192.168.137.1'
 PORT = 1700

• Copy the code to the 'flash' folder in LoPy:

 Via FTP:
 Follow this reference to connect to LoPy via FTP pycom