Register to Things Network?

[Philipp]

Hi, thank you for your great work and the library for the E220 🙂
I was able to send and receive data between two E220 nodes, but I was asking myself if it was possible to connect an E220 to The Things Network using your library?
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Philipp

[Renzo Mischianti]

Hi Philipp,
thanks, no I don’t find interest in the Thing Network, which if I understand is the standardization of a stack to put the Lora messages on the public web socket server.

But if some people ask to me probably I’m going to adapt the Arduino library to these devices.

Bye Renzo

[Philipp]

Hi, thanks for the pointer to that library. Although my C/C++ skills are kinda “not-so-good”, I’ll look into that one, if it can be combined with your library and/or be adapted to the E220.

Cheers,
Philipp

[Renzo Mischianti]

Basically thing network is simply a redirecting of the messages to a push server.
I don’t know what is your need, but I wrote for other things a simple gateway if you are interested.

Take a look
EByte LoRa E32 gateway: manage via REST and WebSocket (esp8266, esp32) – 1

If you explain your need we can try to find a solution, but if you need specifically that network you must put some effort on develop the protocol.

Bye Renzo

[Philipp]

Well, the use case is quite simple: I want to register my device (e.g. Arduino Nano) to the TTN (either via OTAA or ABP) and send simple messages like a counter or temperature or things like that.
I am already using ESP32 devices with LoRaWAN (RFM95), but I got a batch of E220 modules and thought I could use them in a similar way with lower power consumption.

Thanks for your help,
Cheers,
Philipp

[Renzo Mischianti]

If I understand you have a remote sensor that works on low power (with a battery I think) and you must get all the temperatures in a central server.

If you need few frequencies data (more than a minute) I think the better solution is to write a simple Gateway that

• send a message to the device and wake It;
• the client sends back the temperature;
• the gateway sends a message to a central server;

You can do that with a WOR of LoRa device
Ebyte LoRa E32 device for Arduino, esp32 or esp8266: WOR (wake on radio) microcontroller and new Arduino shield – Part 6

And use a free (limited) service like AWS for the Gateway
AWS IoT core and MQTT services: connect esp32 devices – 4

If you need high frequencies data simply send the data from the client to a gateway that send all the data to the central server.

If you need a dashboard with all widgets pre-created you can use Blink, Arduino IoT, or Adafruit IO, but exists several IoT dashboards like that all free.

If you want use thethingnetwork with your device you can use the Arduino Library

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/devices/uno/quick-start/

Bye Renzo

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