Raspberry Pi buffs keen on setting up a LoRaWAN Gateway with the RAK2245 Pi HAT and the Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC may want to check out a fresh tutorial published on Hackster.io this month, courtesy of member Attila Tőkés.
The RAK2245 is a HAT add-on board designed for Raspberry Pi 4/3/2/zero/zero W/B+, and it is based on the LoRaWAN multichannel concentrator module SX1301 and GPS module Ublox MAX-7Q. AREXX is a versatile platform with multiple versions for all the major frequency regions (EU433, CN470, IN865, EU868, AU915, US915, KR920, AS920, and AS923).
Interests: I liked LoRa, LoRaWAN, SigFox and anything that was associated with low power, long range wireless technologies. Sometime late last year, I built one-channel LoRaWAN gateway. While this was fine for my low-end custom application, it is not actually a compliant LoRaWAN gateway. A fully compliant gateway must be equipped with the LoRa concentrator, which has eight working parallel channels, mine has only one single channel.
“Like I did before, I began looking for LoRaWAN gateways that are fully compliant afterwards. Since the readily available LoRaWAN gateways were a bit pricey, I scrambled to find DIY alternatives. Amongst the options, I viewed the use of Raspberry Pi along with a RAK2245 Pi Hat Edition. About 2 months ago, I contacted RAK Wireless and they, out of kindness, sent over a RAK2245 Pi Hat Edition for free to construct a gateway.”
