Reference setup for The Things Network gateways based on the iC880a USB concentrator with a Raspberry Pi host.
This installer targets the USB version of the board, if you have the SPI version, check this branch.
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Download Raspbian Jessie Lite
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Follow the installation instruction to create the SD card
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Start your RPi connected to Ethernet
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Plug the iC880a (WARNING: first power plug to the wall socket, then to the gateway DC jack, and ONLY THEN USB to RPi!)
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From a computer in the same LAN,
ssh
into the RPi using the default hostname:local $ ssh [email protected]
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Default password of a plain-vanilla RASPBIAN install for user
pi
israspberry
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Use
raspi-config
utility to expand the filesystem (1 Expand filesystem):$ sudo raspi-config
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Reboot
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Configure locales and time zone:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
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Make sure you have an updated installation and install
git
:$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo apt-get install git
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Create new user for TTN and add it to sudoers
$ sudo adduser ttn $ sudo adduser ttn sudo
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To prevent the system asking root password regularly, add TTN user in sudoers file
$ sudo visudo
Add the line ttn ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
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Logout and login as
ttn
and remove the defaultpi
user$ sudo userdel -rf pi
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Configure the wifi credentials (check here for additional details)
$ sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
And add the following block at the end of the file, replacing SSID and password to match your network:
network={
ssid="The_SSID_of_your_wifi"
psk="Your_wifi_password"
}
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Clone the installer and start the installation
$ git clone https://github.com/ttn-zh/ic880a-gateway.git ~/ic880a-gateway $ cd ~/ic880a-gateway $ sudo ./install.sh
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If you want to use the remote configuration option, please make sure you have created a JSON file named as your gateway EUI (e.g.
B827EBFFFE7B80CD.json
) in the Gateway Remote Config repository. -
Big Success! You should now have a running gateway in front of you!
These scripts are largely based on the awesome work by Ruud Vlaming on the Lorank8 installer.