LoRa Basics™ Station

The LoRa Basics™ Station protocol simplifies management of large scale LoRaWAN® networks. LoRa Basics™ Station is the preferred way of connecting Gateways to The Things Stack.

Upgrade firmware

If your device already have the Basic Station in Protocol on the configuration page, skip this ‘Upgrade’ step.

If your HT-M02 does not have the ‘Basic Station’ feature upgraded, you can do so over SSH.

  1. Make sure your device is working and connected to the network.

    Reference linking: HT-M02 Quick Start.

  2. Use SSH to connect to the device. The default port is 22, the login name is root, and the password is heltec.org.

    Reference linking: SSH.

  3. Run the following command

    rm -rf update_* && wget http://minerback.heltec.cn/download/update_basicstation.sh && chmod +x update_basicstation.sh && ./update_basicstation.sh

  1. After the installation is completed, refresh the device configuration page, and you can see that the Basic Station function is available.

Operation of Basic Station

Connect to LNS Server

Configuring Servers

  1. Click on the gateway that TTN/TTS has registered. If you don’t know how to connect to TTN/TTS please refer to this link: Connect to TTN/TTS.

  2. Click API keys and then ADD API keys as shown below.

  1. In the Name option, fill in the name of the key (feel free to fill in), select Grant individual rights, Link as Gateway to a Gateway Server for traffic exchange, i.e. read uplink and write downlink.

  1. Click Create API key to generate the key, and the window shown below will pop up to copy the generated key.

小技巧

Copy and save the key, after which the key will not be visible!

  1. Click I have copied the key when you’re done.

Configuring Gateway

  1. Go to the Gateway configuration page.

    Reference linking: HT-M02 Quick Start.

  2. Choose Basic Station

The remaining options are defined as follows:

  • Server Type choose LNS Server.

  • Server URL Fill in the server address.

  • Server Port Fixed port 8887.

  • Authentication Mode choose TLS server & Client token Authentication.

  • Trust (CA Certificate) The default is TTS official certificate, if you need to use your own TTS server, please click this link: CA Certificate.

  • Client Token Enter the API keys generated by the server.

  1. Click APPLY and go back to the server web page, where you can see that the gateway already works as a Basic Station.

Connect to CUPS Server

Configuring Servers

  1. Click on the gateway that TTN/TTS has registered. If you don’t know how to connect to TTN/TTS please refer to this link: Connect to TTN/TTS.

  2. Click API keys and then ADD API keys as shown below.

  1. In the Name option, fill in the name of the key (feel free to fill in), select Grant individual rights, Link as Gateway to a Gateway Server for traffic exchange, i.e. read uplink and write downlink.

  1. Click Create API key to generate the LNS key, and the window shown below will pop up to copy the generated key.

小技巧

Copy and save the key, after which the key will not be visible!

  1. Click I have copied the key, go ahead and Add API key.

  1. In the Name option, fill in the name of the key (such as CUPS key), select:

  • View gateway information

  • Retrieve secrets associated with a gateway

  • Edit basic gateway settings

  1. Click Create API key to generate the CUPS key, and the window shown below will pop up to copy the generated key.

小技巧

Copy and save the key, after which the key will not be visible!

  1. Click General settings, enter the generated LNS key in LoRa Basics Station LNS Authentication Key.

  1. Mouse down, click Save Changes.

Configuring Gateway

  1. Go to the Gateway configuration page.

    Reference linking: HT-M02 Quick Start.

  2. Choose Basic Station

The remaining options are defined as follows:

  • Server Type choose CUPS Server.

  • Server URL Fill in the server address.

  • Server Port Fixed port 8887.

  • Authentication Mode choose TLS server & Client token Authentication.

  • Trust (CA Certificate) The default is TTS official certificate, if you need to use your own TTS server, please click this link: CA Certificate.

  • Client Token Enter the CUP keys generated by the server.

  1. Click APPLY and go back to the server web page, where you can see that the gateway already works as a Basic Station.