disk91 / awesome-helium

helium-links for enriching it

A curated list of all helium projects, tutorials, and resources.

Contents

• Community
• Software
• Hardware
• Exchanges
• Education
• Network Operators
• Network Servers

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Community

• Discord - Official Helium Community Discord; many people, very busy
• Monthly Community Calls - Noon ET on the last Wednesday of the month
• Weekly Helium Hacks Happy Hour - Every Wednesday at 2p PT

Software

Docker Miner

• Blockchain Sync Progress Script - Bash script to get the current progress of your Helium miner running via docker

End Node Device App Development

Development Environments

• Leroy's Updated & Unofficial CubeCell repo - Heltec ASR650x; Heavily improved.
• Leroy's WisBlock sample code
• LoRaWAN Tracker Example Code - Really good example using WisBlocks
• WisBlock Helium Mapper - Fork of LoRaWAN Tracker modified to work with Helium Cargo and Mapper Ingest.

Developer Best Practices

NOTE: These best practices are written targeting non Helium LoRa network providers. Not all of these suggestions necessarily apply to the Helium network but they area probably worth noting. (disclaimer: In no particular order, with no particular recommendation, not all are fully vetted)

• SemTech: Things to Know
• Best Practices: The Things Industries
• The Things Network: Best practices for device development
• The Things Network: Best practices to limit application payloads
• 3 best practices for long LoRaWAN battery life: video

Explorers/Analytics/Hotspot Analysis/Monitoring

• Helium Explorer Open-source helium explorer
• Hotspotty - Hotspotty your all-in-one tool for building the Helium network Understand your hotspot data, plan and manage your hotspots and payouts, collaborate with the community and your team, optimize network performance and HNT earnings.
• Helium Coverage Mapping
• Cargo Live Mapper
• Line of sight measurement
• Helium Chain Variables
• LoRa documentation
• HotspotRF - Improve and optimize Helium hotspot placement using Radio Frequency (RF) modeling.
• Cloud-RF - RF coverage modeling and mapping utility
• Patrium - Another hotspot management platform
• Mock sensor code to send lorawan otta join
• Helium+ Helium hotspot earnings calculator
• Helium.place - Hotspot placement visualization tool
• WhatHeliumRegion - Check the LoRa frequency of a region
• Heliumbot.io - Managed hotspot monitoring and profit calculation service providing push notifications
• Watchium - Monitor hotspots failure and anormal states
• WioHeliumMonitor - Monitor your network and your hotspot with a hardware device based on WioTerminal
• Sitebot - Helium network explorer discontinued
• Mylar - Great helium analytics discontinued

Dashboards

• Datacake.co Enterprise IoT platform
• Cayenne
• Adafruit.io - Adafruit.io is a cloud service - that just means we run it for you and you don't have to manage it. You can connect to it over the Internet. It's meant primarily for storing and then retrieving data but it can do a lot more than just that!
• Ubidots - blog post - Dashboard for IoT projects.
• Thingsboard
• Node Red
• Tago.io - Up to 5 dashboards for free, really easy to integrate and build with Helium

Home Automation

• Helium for Home Assistant

Mobile Apps

• Unofficial Hotspot Utility - Unofficial Android/iPhone Hotspot Utility

DIY Hotspots

Build tutorials

• DIY Hotspot auto update automation scripts - Wheaties466/helium_miner_scripts, automation for setting up DIY hotspots. All things DIY.

• Helium developer docs guide - Pilot Gateway (sx1301-based)

• maco2035/DiyHeliumHotspots - Collection of guides for setting up various builds

• PastaGringo/balenaos-helium-gtw - BelanaCloud-based build with docker-compose

• bottxrnife/helium-2245 - Forked from PastaGringo, BelanaCloud + docker-conmpose configuration for RAK2245-based builds, like the RAK Pilot Gateway (SX1301-based chip)

• bottxrnife/helium-2287 - Above but for RAK2287-based builds, like the RAK Discover Kit 2 (SX1302-based chip)

• just4give/helium-dyi-hotspot-balena-pi4 - "Build your own helium hotspot ( miner + packet forwader ) on Raspberry pi 4 using BalenaOS"

• jamiew/helium-diy-hotspot - Collection of shell scripts for setting up, updating, and monitoring a DIY hotspot

• 23RoMax/h2b - Helium DIY Hotspot Bootstrapping script with a few utilities

• meshferg/lorawan-helium-diy-gateway_miner - RAK2245 & rPi4 gateway miner collecting wetlands data

• dansku/helium-rak833-pisupply PiSupply LoRa Gateway with the RAK833 for Helium. Video tutorials

• disk91/helium-gateway-rs-docker Manage DiY hotspot deployment at scale.

• Setting up a Helium miner on DigitalOcean

• Adding a DIY Hotspot to the Helium Blockchain

Payload Decoders

• VolleyBoast VoBo GP1 - Decodes standard payload
• Helium Decoder Repo
• Helium Mapper Decoder

Hardware

Hotspots

• DeWi Announcement
• Helium official hotspot
• RAK Hotspot Miner
• Nebra Miners Nebra.com | North America (Parley Labs)
• Dragino LPS8
• DIY gateway builds
• ...

Outdoor Enclosures

• RAK Outdoor Enclosure RAKWireless Shenzhen, Parley Labs (RAK VAR - North America)

Sensor Guides and Tutorial

• Browan TBHV110 Quickstart
• Browan TBHH100 Quickstart
• Connect a RAK7204 to Helium and forward its data to Ubidots
• KiCAD version of WisBlock-Sensor-RTC-Example
• Dragino LT-22222-L- Helium 'Smart-Plug'
• RAK Weather Monitor- US915 Setup

Coverage Mapping

• CubeCell Helium Coverage Mapper - Mapper using the CubeCell w/ GPS/OLED by jas-williams
• WioLoRaWanFieldTester - Mapper using the Wio Terminal.

Antennas

• OG Stock Hotspot Antenna - (pdf datasheet)
• 3dBi RAK Stock Replacement Antenna - RAKWireless Shenzhen, Parley Labs (RAK VAR - North America)
• RAK 5.8dBi RAKWireless Shenzhen, Parley Labs (RAK VAR - North America)
  • 5.8 dBi Base support 3D STL File
• RAK 8dBi RAKWireless Shenzhen, Parley Labs (RAK VAR - North America)
• Nearson 9dBi
• ANT-916-MHW-RPS-S - Indoor antenna - pdf
• ...

Cables & adapters

• LMR-400 from USACoax - For RAK/Nebra miners to RAK/LorRaWAN antennas use RP-SMA Male to N-Type Female connectors.
• ...

Exchanges

• Binance US
• Binance
• Bilaxy
• OTC Telegram groups
• HotBit

Education

• LoRaWAN Academy - self-paced on-demand LoRaWAN training course
• Helium Hub - Helium Knowledgebase / New articles regularly!
• Disk91.com - Helium technical blog posts

Network Operators

Interested in hosting a hotspot? Get in touch with one of these companies:

• Buildmesh.io - 20% of HNT earnings plus $10 donation to STEM non-profit
• Emrit – 20% of HNT earnings
• Flywheel Systems – 50% of HNT earnings + referrals. Plus cryptocurrency consulation.
• Hostify - New Jersey-only. $35+/monthly, $50+/referral
• IoWe (Internet of We) - 20% Partner referrals. 50% of HNT earnings after referral [where applicable].
• Loris.club - 25% of HNT earnings

Network Servers

Want to connect your devices to an Helium network server (console)

• Nova console - up to 10 devices, 250 Dcs
• Helium IoT - unlimited devices, $0.00005 per DCs

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.