Support AEP

[jchonig]

Investigating extending to support AEP.

AEP has remote configuration, uprading and monitoring

How would it work with this?

[ddewaele]

Would definitely have added value.
There's only so much you can do with DeviceHQ. If you to automate some lower-level stuff, this kind of automation via ansible can be a plus.

[terrillmoore]

We'd be happy to look into it -- but we don't have a lot of gateways for reflashing. First step would be to figure out what we need for development and for regression testing and then try to get someone to donate hardware....

[ddewaele]

This git repo caught my interest because of your ansible usage on multitech. We're currently not using TTN but we do have 50+ gateways configured with AEP in lora network server mode. (for various reasons). AEP / DeviceHQ is great, but we find that a lot of things cannot be done with it, so some other device mgmt tool is needed and ansible can be a good fit.

In the future we are going to implement a POC with mutltitech on TTN , so I'll definitely revisit this repo again at that point.

[terrillmoore]

Thanks for the info about AEP; we have been debating using it. Pros: it seemed to do what we were doing with Ansible; cons: it is proprietary, and for public work things need to be vendor-neutral (even though we really like MultiTech).

Although we're doing TTN work, we don't think that our users want to be married to TTN, either. And we want our work to be generally useful (so we can get more feedback and eyes looking at it). As you have it working now, please give us feedback on any things that need to be generalized for your use case.

[ddewaele]

Will do ... feel free to hook me up via email (see my bio) if you want to know more about our AEP usage, the ideas behind it, and our experiences so far ... I'm sure we can learn a thing or 2 from each other !