Mikrotik wAP LR8 kit - LoRa - Loriot

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hello all,

Has anyone gotten the: https://mikrotik.com/product/wap_lr8_kit
To work with: https://www.loriot.io ?
Extra info: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/lorawan-support/116973/18

Thanks!
Jarod - Outdoor Gateway Zaanstad / Amsterdam 42m

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Hello,
In order to add your wAP LoRa kit to loriot.io do the following:

  1. Press “Add gateway” in loriot.io, choose “Packet forwarder Semtech”;
  2. In “eth0 MAC address” field paste MAC address of your wAP ether1 interface, enter the location details and press “Register packet forwarder Semtech forwarder”;
  3. Copy the EUI which looks like XX-XX-XX-FF-FF-XX-XX-XX, remove all the “-” symbols so that it looks like “XXXXXXFFFFXXXXXX”;
  4. Connect to your wAP LoRa kit, open new terminal and do the following:
    a) /lora server add name=loriot up-port=1780 down-port=1780 address=eu1.loriot.io
    Address depends on the registration of your loriot.io account, I selected this one at the registration process.
    b) /lora set 0 disabled=no servers=loriot gateway-id=XXXXXXFFFFXXXXXX

After executing these commands, your gateway should appear as active and the server should receive all the uplinks from your wAP LoRa kit.

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Thanks for the reply. But now my other LoRa networks no longer work due to the changed gateway-id. (hardware-id = gateway-id, with the wAP LoRa kit.

  • i get this all the time:
    lora-dl: [loriot] Keepalive timed out

It seems the loriot UDP server is not working. Two other networks work fine, so that is not the issue.
I guess we need a way we can add the wAP LoRa kit eui- to loriot ourself.

I guess the question remains open!
With additional information: How to run the wAP LoRa kit gateway on Loriot, with the wAP LoRa’s own gateway-id?

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Lets end for now with: It cannot be done.
Loriot has to update their gateway support.
Thanks for the suggestions!

5

What are the specs of LR8? How much throughput? What “LTE Category”.

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LR8 is LoRa, not LTE, are completely different things. LoRa was designed to transfer low throughput using low power at high distances.

Here you have the specs of LR8 module from Mikrotik.

Here more detailed.

Regards.

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It has been some months. Anyone successful yet?
Also do i have to add some firewall rule for port 1780, or is the default config fine to forward to UDP 1780?

Running TheThingNetwork V2 and V3 together works fine.