Problems connect old Kerlink gateway wirnet station into ChirpStack

atoste · October 22, 2024, 8:11am

Hello,

I’m new to ChirpStack so I have no experience in this, but I wanted to connect this old Kerlink gateway into my ChirpStack server, but I wasn’t able to.

The gateway looks like this:

I manage to configure the packet-forwarder on the gateway like in the tutorial in: Kerlink - ChirpStack open-source LoRaWAN® Network Server documentation

but I wasn’t able to execute the following command: klk_apps_config --activate-cpf

However on the Kerlink wiki page it says: “The Kerlink’s common packet forwarder (process lorad &lorafwd ) will be restarted in a loop until the access to the LoRaWAN server is correct.”

I added the gateway to Chirpstack and rebooted it and it didn’t work. Could anyone give me a tip on what to do next?

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
André

IoTThinks · October 23, 2024, 8:42am

What is the error?
A few years ago, I tried Kerlink Winet with Chirpstack v3 and it works.
Both UDP forwarder and ChirpStack gateway bridge on the gateway are working.

If you use UDP forwarder, you need to install ChirpStack gateway bridge on the server. The UDP forwarder points to the server IP.

If you use ChirpStack gateway bridge on the gateway, the UDP forwarder needs to send to 127.0.0.0:1700 of your local ChirpStack gateway bridge. Then your local ChirpStack gateway bridge will send data to Chirpstack via MQTT.