xypron / lorawan-gateway-emulator

LoRaWAN Gateway Emulator

LoRaWAN Gateway Emulator

This program emulates a LoRaWAN gateway. It uses the Semtech LoRa forwarder protocol[1] to communicate with a LoRaWAN server.

Building the emulator

The following prerequisites must be installed:

• rebar3
• Erlang OTP, version 21 or later

Build with command

make

Copy local.config.template to local.config and fill in the relevant data.

Running the emulator

Run the emulator with the following command

make run

Type stop to exit the program.

The emulator sends PULL_DATA requests every two seconds.

Every few seconds it sends a PUSH_DATA message emulating an RAK LB801N button with button 1 pressed (hexadecimal string 53 01 01 00 00 00 00 5A).

License

This program is licensed according to the MIT license. See the accompanying file LICENSE.

Links

• 1 https://github.com/Lora-net/packet_forwarder/blob/master/PROTOCOL.TXT - Basic communication protocol between Lora gateway and server