An update on the state of the Gateway Profile:
I was planning to fully remove this feature, because it was not clear to many how to use this + it turned out to be complex to support all gateways in a generic way, due to different configuration files. However, with the introduction of the Concentratord, I believe it makes sense to keep this (with better documentation).
With the Concentratord component (https://github.com/brocaar/chirpstack-concentratord), which will support different kind of gateways, it becomes easier to re-configure gateways in a generic way. The ChirpStack Gateway Bridge no longer has to know how to update the Packet Forwarder configuration, it simply passes the new configuration to the Concentratord, which then will interpret the configuration update. For the SX1301, this has been implemented in:
To clarify what exactly the Gateway Profile is doing, I have added the following help dialog:
I’m looking forward to feedback on this!