Legacy Pocket Forwarder Setup clodpi.io

Hardware

1. Get the raspberry pi 3 board and get a 8gb micro sd card ready with the raspbian software
2. Connect raspberry pi + pi adapter + RAK831 Gateway Module
3. Connect the raspberry pi to 5v 2amps power supply.

Firmware setup

Enable SPI

1. Run sudo raspi-config.
2. Use the down arrow to select 9 Advanced Options
3. Arrow down to A6 SPI.
4. Select yes when it asks you to enable SPI,
5. Also select yes when it asks about automatically loading the kernel module.
6. Use the right arrow to select the <Finish> button.
7. Select yes when it asks to reboot.

Verify SPI

1. Run ls /dev/*spi* Should respond with /dev/spidev0.0 /dev/spidev0.1

Install GIT

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install git

Install Pocket forwarder

cd ~

git clone https://github.com/clodpi/loragw.git

cd ~/loragw

sudo ./install.sh

Raspberry Pi will reboot after installation.

sudo cat /opt/semtech/packet_forwarder/lora_pkt_fwd/local_conf.json to get the gateway_ID (Gateway MAC)

Proceed to https://console.clodpi.io to configure the Gateway

Configire Pocket forwarder (if needed)

Edit local_conf.json

sudo nano /opt/semtech/packet_forwarder/lora_pkt_fwd/local_conf.json

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