User's Manual

WaveFlexPicocellGatewayRadio‐UserManual‐Version1.2
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6. PacketForwarderApplicationProgramforRPi3PicocellGatewayHost
TheLoRa®PacketForwarderisanapplicationprogramthatrunsontheRPi3Picocell
GatewayHost.ThisprogramforwardsRFpacketsreceivedbytheWPGRfromtheEnd‐
Node‐DevicestotheLoRa®ServerthroughanIP/UDPLink.ThePacketForwarderalso
forwardsdatathatissentbytheLoRa®ServertotheEnd‐Node‐DevicesontheNetwork
viatheWPGR.
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6.1 CompileSemtechHALandPacketForwarderontheRPi3
 $cd~/lora‐net/picoGW_hal
 $makecleanall
 $cd~/lora‐net/picoGW_packet_forwarder
 $makecleanal
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6.2 RunUSBCommunicationsStressTestbetweenRPi3HostandWPGR
RunningthistestwilltesttheUSBtoSerialcommunicationslinkbetweentheRPi3
HostandtheWPGR.Thistestshouldruncontinuouslyanddumpdatatothe
TerminalontheRPi3untilitisstopped.
 $cd~/lora‐net/picoGW_hal/util_com_stress
 $./util_com_stress‐t4‐d/dev/ttyACM0
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 PressCtrl+CandthenEnterKeytoExittheTest.
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6.3 GettheuniqueGatewayIDfromtheWPGR
RunthecommandsbelowtoaccesstheGatewayIDfromtheWPGR.Thisvalue
shouldbeusedinthe“global_conf.json”fileasthe“GatewayID”.
 $cd~/lora‐net/picoGW_hal/util_chip_id
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 $./util_chip_id‐d/dev/ttyACM0 (Note:mayneedtouse“ttyACM1”)
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