Just getting into LoRaWAN and I’ve been around the block with Balena and now would like to test out ChirpStack.
I already have an issue, myself. I got the latest and greatest and too eagered to get my hands dirty but the Raspberry Pi 5 is still new to be support as well as the Pi 3/4.
I saw other post already about the Pi 5 but saw they were closed. I just wanted to have an open thread for all Pi 5 releted topics/questions.
So far with OpenWRT is some what support the CM5 at the moment, the Pi 5 has a snapshot as of now and seems close to get the full 24.10 support. https://openwrt.org/releases/snapshot
Has anyone played with the Pi 5 with ChirpStack in any way so far?
While this is the Gateway OS sub-forum, you mentioned that you’re new to LoRaWAN. So I hope that it’s understood that it’s not strictly necessary to use Chirpstack’s concentratord/Gateway OS to get a LoRaWAN solution with Chirpstack. It’s just Chirpstack’s way of doing that. Technically, various major LNS providers also have their own way of doing things.
The standard way is to have a packet forwarder built for the LoRaWAN hardware, and pointed to the LNS (which is Chirpstack etc). These would be the Semtech UDP Packet Forwarder or BasicStation, or 100% compatible.
You followed Documentation v4 and just followed its steps fine?
I tried to look up bookworm but couldn’t find anything that may be related to what you used. Can you educate me on what it is? I would like to try this.
Thank you for the clarification.
I’ve been struggling to find other gateways OS for the Pi 5/RAK5146. So far just found RAK’s and Chirpstack’s OS.
I think it might be due to trying to use too new of hardware and it’s not widely supported yet? Not sure.
Sure do you have discord or anything? its a lengthy process to keep it short what I did is installed raspberrypi os for pi5 and installed packet forwarder(for HAL) and chirpstack(LNS) from sourcecode.
I haven’t gotten a chance to try it.
I didn’t get a hold of @Mohan_B on discord yet. We connected but haven’t talked about it.
Maybe me tagging them will help ha.