Converting Raspberry Pi with SX1303 LoRaWAN HAT into a Relay Gateway

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Hello everyone,

I have a Raspberry Pi equipped with a Waveshare SX1303 LoRaWAN HAT, and I’ve heard that it’s possible to convert a gateway into a relay gateway to extend coverage. I’m interested in exploring this functionality but am not sure where to start.

Could anyone provide documentation, guides, or any tips on how to set up my Raspberry Pi and SX1303 HAT as a relay gateway? Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

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Did you ever figure anything out on this I am in the same boat. This is something that is mentioned in the Chirpstack documentation but I assume they don’t go into any detail because it is deferent for every gateway model.

Update: It is starting to make sense to me now. It seems as if this feature was developed with the RAK crew and it will work with their WiseblockOS (or whatever it’s called). However they do provide the ChirpStack-gatway-bridge.toml and that is a good start. I’ll post an upside if I get it up and running. Introduction - ChirpStack open-source LoRaWAN® Network Server documentation

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One adjacent that I had to do in order to get the Gateway mesh installed on the Raspery Pi 4B is to install nix with >

curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install -o install-nix.sh

sh install-nix.sh --daemon

With respect to the instruction found here GitHub - chirpstack/chirpstack-gateway-mesh: ChirpStack Gateway Mesh

I’ll try to make an overview of this entire offered network build once I have thoroughly tested it.

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Please note that this has been fully integrated in the latest ChirpStack Gateway OS :slight_smile: See also: ChirpStack Gateway Mesh - ChirpStack open-source LoRaWAN® Network Server documentation.

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So do we have to run the Gatway OS on all the devices to establish the mesh ? I have tried everything but that and really can’t do that for the relay gateways . Given the scenario where I have a central Gateway, that is a raspberry pie, running the gateway OS and it needs to establish a mesh with several several raspberry pi’s . All of them having Elecrow LR1302 hats . What would you be your recommendation For the configuration? I cannot get the relay / mesh units joined to the central gateway . I’ve combed through the documentation several times and the missing piece of the pie just seems to be how to get the relay gateways added. Either that or I’m just not understanding it correctly.