LORA gateway

Tutorial on how to leverage LORA for a mailbox sensor from PricelessToolkit (opens new window):

Receiving data from LORA signal

Subscribe to all the messages with mosquitto or open your MQTT client software:

sudo mosquitto_sub -t +/# -v

Generate your LORA signals by using another TTGO LORA module, you can flash the sender program from this repository (opens new window) and the SSD1306 library there (opens new window)

Once one board flashed with OMG and the other with the sender program you should receive regular packets into home/OpenMQTTGateway_ESP32_LORA_TEST/LORAtoMQTT like below:

{"rssi":-16,"snr":9.25,"pferror":-3598,"packetSize":9,"message":"hello 35"}
{"rssi":-26,"snr":9,"pferror":-3598,"packetSize":9,"message":"hello 36"}
{"rssi":-16,"snr":9.5,"pferror":-3581,"packetSize":9,"message":"hello 37"}

Messages that contain non-printable characters will be converted to hexadecimal and look like this:

{"rssi":-121,"snr":-11.75,"pferror":-29116,"packetSize":3,"hex":"C0FFEE"}

And from a supported device (in this case, a WiPhone), looks like this:

{"rssi":-50,"snr":9.25,"pferror":20728,"packetSize":30,"from":"123ABC","to":"000000","message":"Hi from WiPhone","type":"WiPhone"}

Send data by MQTT to convert it on LORA signal

mosquitto_pub -t home/OpenMQTTGateway/commands/MQTTtoLORA -m '{"message":"hello OMG1"}'

This command will send by LORA the message "hello OMG1" and use the default parameters defined in config_LORA.h (opens new window)

If you want to test that your sending works you can use another TTGO LORA module, you can flash the receiver program from this repository (opens new window) and the SSD1306 library there (opens new window)

Send data by MQTT with advanced LORA parameters

LORA sending support the following parameters that should be specified in the json message;

• txpower: 2 to 20
• spreadingfactor: 6 to 12. If a spreading factor of 6 is set, implicit header mode must be used to transmit and receive * * packets.
• frequency: 433E6, 866E6, 915E6
• signalbandwidth: 7.8E3, 10.4E3, 15.6E3, 20.8E3, 31.25E3, 41.7E3, 62.5E3, 125E3, and 250E3
• codingrate: 5 to 8
• preamblelength: 6 to 65535
• syncword: byte
• enablecrc: boolean

More info on where the LORA library is born @sandeepmistry (opens new window)

Examples:

• Plain text message: mosquitto_pub -t home/OpenMQTTGateway/commands/MQTTtoLORA -m '{"message":"test8","txpower":17}'
  will make LORA use the a txpower of 17 when sending the message "test8"
• Binary message: mosquitto_pub -t "home/OpenMQTTGateway/commands/MQTTtoLORA" -m '{"hex":"01C0FFEE"}'
  will send binary 0x01C0FFEE
• WiPhone message: mosquitto_pub -t "home/OpenMQTTGateway/commands/MQTTtoLORA" -m '{"message":"test","type":"WiPhone","to":"123ABC","from":"FFFFFF"}'
  will send "test" to a WiPhone with chip ID 123ABC