markchipman / loraserver-pi-gen

Scripts for generating ready to use Raspberry Pi images

LoRa Server Raspberry Pi image generator

Scripts to generate a Raspbian based LoRa Server image for the Raspberry Pi. The image is intended to use on a Rasberry Pi based LoRa Gateway, for example the RisingHF IoT Discovery kit. These scripts are based on RPi-Distro/pi-gen.

Components installed:

• packet_forwarder (master branch)
• Redis
• Mosquitto
• PostgreSQL
• LoRa Gateway Bridge (latest release)
• LoRa Server (latest release)
• LoRa App Server (latest release)

Notes

• LoRa App Server is accessible on port 8080 (http).
• SSH is disabled by default. See the Raspberry Pi documentation for more information.
• The default configuration is for the EU 868 ISM band. To change this, you need to modify two files:
  • stage3/02-packet-forwarder/files/global_conf.json
  • stage3/04-loraserver/files/loraserver.toml
• Make sure the correct GPIO reset pin number is correctly configured in: stage3/02-packet-forwarder/files/start.sh

Dependencies

When running this script outside Docker, you need to install the following dependencies:

quilt parted realpath qemu-user-static debootstrap zerofree pxz zip dosfstools bsdtar libcap2-bin grep rsync

Docker Build

./build-docker.sh

If everything goes well, your finished image will be in the deploy/ folder. You can then remove the build container with docker rm pigen_work

If something breaks along the line, you can edit the corresponding scripts, and continue:

CONTINUE=1 ./build-docker.sh

There is a possibility that even when running from a docker container, the installation of qemu-user-static will silently fail when building the image because binfmt-support must be enabled on the underlying kernel. An easy fix is to ensure binfmt-support is installed on the host machine before starting the ./build-docker.sh script (or using your own docker build solution).