I’m looking for some help for a newbie of IoT over here (don’t even know if i’m at the right place).
Here is my problem :
I’m searching (for about a week) about something like a repeater for the LoRa Network. I’ve got an antenna a bit far of my building so I can’t receive any signal in my basement, so I would like to get (if it exist, i’ve seen topics about the fact that LoRaWAN repeater doesn’t) a repeater to get the signal of the antenna of the Internet access provider (who provide the LoRa Network) and “amplify” it to my basement
I’m thinking about taking a simple amplifier (Frequency band of 868 MHz (Europe)) connect it to an antenna and here is my LoRa repeater !
What do you think about it ?
It seems that the amplifier you linked will only be compatible with Smanos systems. I can’t recommend it.
I’m not so sure how you could do it homemade but I’ll ask around in the office!
We’re pretty much convinced that you won’t be able to find an out-of-the-box solution as LoRaWAN was not designed to work with repeaters: http://microchipdeveloper.com/faq:3200
So, just to make sure we clearly understand each other, I wan’t to find a tool who could take LoRa frames, amplify them, and release them.
If you tell me I can’t do it I believe you, just want to make sure.
It should be noted that repeaters for LoRaWAN networks are unlikely to exist (by design!). That being said, if you wish to only extend range for a direct LoRa connection, this is certainly possible.
Example: http://www.invisible-systems.com/product/ultra-rf-repeater/.
This manufacturer says the following on their product page:
Therefore, not only will it not work for LoRaWAN, but it most likely will only work with their LoRa products.
Also, here’s an article about extending LoRa range.
I understand that there is no option for me for an out of the box product who could do what I want.
I will do some more researches about a home made repeater.
Hi, i’ve been developing a solution for this, it’s a laboratory experiment for now.
i’m using a gateway made with a raspberry pi 3 and a rak831 concentrator.
The idea is to use a gateway with no internet connection to repeat the messages received in a frequency pool.
I modify the packet forwarder program running in the raspberry. This program has five threads that work in five different tasks and use a loragw library to communicate with the concentrator. I leave only one thread: the one who that receives the lora packets and modify it to resend the packet in other frecuency pool, used by the gateways.
