Semtech Basic Station on Raspberry Pi and ChirpStack

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I’m new to LoRaWAN. I use Semtech Basic Station installed on Raspberry Pi 3 + Waveshare HAT, see the picture

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. It works fine with the TTN server, but I want to use the Chapstick server. I installed it on the second Raspberry Pi. I do everything according to this instruction and I got stuck on the phrase “You need to install the ChirpStack Gateway Bridge on your server with the basic_station backend enabled.”
The question is: in the phrase above it is written that ChirpStack Gateway Bridge must be installed on a server with a base station. But I have Semtech Basic Station installed not on the server, but on a Raspberry PI with Waveshare HAT. So, where should I install ChirpStack Gateway Bridge: on Raspberry with Waveshare HAT or on Raspberry with Chirpstack server?

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The ChirpStack Gateway Bridge has two backends:

  • Semtech UDP Packet Forwarder
  • Semtech Basics Station

You can only configure one backend and depending the selected backend, the Gateway Bridge will be able to handle UDP Packet Forwarder or Basics Station connections and data.

This does not mean that the Basics Station itself needs to run on the same machine as the Gateway Bridge, most likely this is not the case and especially not in the case of the Basics Station, which provides the option to use Websockets over TLS (with option to use client-cert authentication).

So in your case, you most likely want to install the Gateway Bridge on the ChirpStack server :slight_smile:

Please see this part of the config, in your case you need to make some changes to enable the Basics Station backend:

# Gateway backend configuration.
[backend]

# Backend type.
#
# Valid options are:
#   * semtech_udp
#   * concentratord
#   * basic_station
type="semtech_udp"

https://www.chirpstack.io/docs/chirpstack-gateway-bridge/configuration.html

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