LoRa Gateway OS

The LoRa Gateway OS is an embedded OS for LoRa gateways. It is part of the open-source LoRa Server project.

The goal of the LoRa Gateway OS is to provide firmware images that are easy to setup, maintain and customize.

Images

lora-gateway-os-base

An image providing the Semtech packet-forwarder and LoRa Gateway Bridge.

Provides the following features:

• Monit based service monitoring
• Semtech packet-forwarder
• LoRa Gateway Bridge

lora-gateway-os-full

An image providing a complete LoRaWAN network-server running on the gateway.

Provides the following features:

• Monit based service monitoring
• Semtech packet-forwarder
• LoRa Gateway Bridge
• LoRa Server
• LoRa App Server
• Mosquitto MQTT broker
• Redis
• PostgreSQL

Targets

• LORIX One

• Raspberry Pi 3

  • IMST - iC880A
  • IMST - iC980A
  • Pi Supply - LoRa Gateway Hat
  • RAK - RAK2245
  • RAK - RAK831 Gateway Developer Kit
  • RisingHF - RHF0M301 LoRaWAN IoT Discovery Kit
  • Sandbox Electronics - LoRaGo PORT

Using

Login

The default username is admin with password admin.

Gateway configuration

Execute the following command as admin user:

sudo gateway-config

Building images

A Docker based build environment is provided for compiling the images.

Initial setup

Run the following command to fetch the git submodules and setup directory permissions (to write back from the Docker container):

# update the submodules
make submodules

# setup permissions
make permissions

Run the following command to set the /build folder permissions:

# on the host
docker-compose run --rm busybox

# within the container
chown 999:999 /build

Building

Run the following command to setup the build environment:

# on the host
docker-compose run --rm yocto bash

# within the container

# initialize the yocto / openembedded build environment
source oe-init-build-env /build/ /lora-gateway-os/bitbake/


# build the lora-gateway-os-base image
bitbake lora-gateway-os-base

Configuration

By default, Raspberry Pi3 is configured as the target platform. You need to update the following configuration files to configure a different target:

• /build/config/local.conf
• /build/config/bblayers.conf

Good to know

SD Card wearout

Although LoRa Server tries to minimize the number of database writes, there will be regular writes to the SD Card (PostgreSQL and Redis snapshots). According to Is it true that a SD/MMC Card does wear levelling with its own controller? it might make a difference which SD Card brand you use.

Updates

(Currently) the LoRa Server project does not provide package updates. However, each image includes the opkg package manager,

Versioning

The major version (major.minor.patch) of this project represents the major version of the provided LoRa Server components.