Lorawan-Server.md

Use LoRaWAN Server

Description

For this we will use a freee open source lorawan-server written by Peter Gotthard. Thanks to him for sharing. The server is very light and efficient and always safisfied my need.

Installation

You can follow the installation procedure here

I generally use to download the Debian package install it with dpkg -i

wget https://github.com/gotthardp/lorawan-server/releases/download/v0.5.3/lorawan-server_0.5.3_all.deb
dpkg -i lorawan-server_0.5.3_all.deb

Post Installation

Then to improove log rotation, you can add this lines to /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog

/var/log/lorawan-server/crash.log
/var/log/lorawan-server/error.log
/var/log/lorawan-server/debug.log
{
        rotate 1
        daily
        missingok
        notifempty
        compress
        postrotate
                invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
        endscript
}

Forward packets to local Server

If you installed all your gateway stuff from this current repository, you just need to enable the forwarder to send packed to the Local LoRaWAN server. For this set the line serv_enabled to true for the server 127.0.0.1 Take care, the one that has both port to 1680, not the one with 1688/1689 (this one is for OLED)

sudo nano /opt/loragw/global_conf.json

            {
                "server_address": "127.0.0.1",
                "serv_enabled": true,           // <== set this one to true
                "serv_port_up": 1680,
                "serv_port_down": 1680
            }

And restart loragw service to take into account the new local server with

sudo systemctl stop loragw
sudo systemctl start loragw