Hi,
could I experience any issues if I connect one gateway (dragino DLOS8) to multiple gateway bridges on different UDB ports?
The gateway supports to specify 2 servers and use a whitelist per server to pass only the correct devices, so the devices are only passed to one gateway bridge.
My use case:
I have some devices that I want to configure to use more than channel 1, 3, 5, but some other devices shall only use channel 1, 3, 5. But I have only one gateway installed in the area.
Thanks.
That should work okay, but why not just have one gateway bridge with all of the channels? The devices using 1,3,5 should still work fine with that.
Hi,
thanks for the response.
why not just have one gateway bridge with all of the channels
So it should work to use a gateway bridge configured to use all channels and than set the device profile of the devices to only use channel 1, 3, 5?
I think I already tested this last year and noticed that the gateway did not pass all payloads. But maybe I configured the gateway to only use channel 1,3,5 and added extra channels to the devices, and probably the payload of this extra channels was not passed?
Hmm, I had previously assumed the devices would be limited themselves, not that they would rely on the server to restrict them. If the devices only used 1,3,5 regardless of server config the single gateway bridge would work, but I believe it is the enabled_channels array in your regional file that becomes the LinkADRReq that the server sends to the device to tell it what frequencies to use. I’m pretty sure the “regional configuration” option in the device profile will just reject packets from devices that are not within it’s bounds.
So if that’s the case and you need Chirpstack to tell the devices to use the specific subset (rather than the devices only transmitting on those three themselves) I think you’d have to use the two gateway bridges.