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Lora Soil Moisture Sensor
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Connect to LoraWan / TheThingsNetwork #1

Open jdegger opened 3 years ago

jdegger commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I'm experimenting with my sensor, however it is not completely clear to me how I would proceed with connecting the sensor to LoraWan. Is this a possibility of completely out of scope of this project?

Thanks.

Makerfabs commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I do not know if this email can find you… seems this is a github message…

The sensor is a Lora node, based on 328P and Lora module SX127x, for LoraWAN, theoretically, it is OK, that you program the 328P with firmware that supports LoraWAN, but as I know, it should be not easy.

Basically, we treat this sensor as a separate lora node, without lorawan support.

Best Regards

Kevin www.makerfabs.com

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Hi,

I'm experimenting with my sensor, however it is not completely clear to me how I would proceed with connecting the sensor to LoraWan. Is this a possibility of completely out of scope of this project?

Thanks.

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jdegger commented 3 years ago

Thank you Kevin, I am receiving your reply just fine.

Would makerfabs be willing to look into LoraWan support as it's a very interesting technique to add to the support list?

Makerfabs commented 3 years ago

Er, no.. it would be difficult to support the lorawan. Actually, if you need Lorawan, there already some IC/module that integrated the lorawan protocol

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Thank you Kevin, I am receiving your reply just fine.

Would makerfabs be willing to look into LoraWan support as it's a very interesting technique to add to the support list?

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jdegger commented 3 years ago

Actually, if you need Lorawan, there already some IC/module that integrated the lorawan protocol

Where can I find those? Thank you for your quick response

Makerfabs commented 3 years ago

I believe this: CMWX1ZZABZ -078 https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Murata-Electronics/CMWX1ZZABZ-078?qs=sGAEpiMZZMu3sxpa5v1qrgywWChs744Wl3PkA8jSqjc%3D

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Actually, if you need Lorawan, there already some IC/module that integrated the lorawan protocol

Where can I find those? Thank you for your quick response

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jdegger commented 3 years ago

Hi, I just wanted to let you guys know that I found out that this certainly possible. I'm on my way to make this work but I'm still having some issues. Once I have a working .ino I will share it here. I'm using https://github.com/mcci-catena/arduino-lmic to make this work.

It might be interesting for you as well to use and test this, as it might sell better with LoraWan

jumbophp commented 3 years ago

Hi, I just wanted to let you guys know that I found out that this certainly possible. I'm on my way to make this work but I'm still having some issues. Once I have a working .ino I will share it here. I'm using https://github.com/mcci-catena/arduino-lmic to make this work.

It might be interesting for you as well to use and test this, as it might sell better with LoraWan

Interesting I'm deeping my tows in the same library I've managed to get it to

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mikelinton commented 3 years ago

@jdegger I'm running into the same issue as I thought I'd be able to use these with LoRaWan/TTN. Were you ever able to get things running with TTN? Thanks in advance.

jumbophp commented 3 years ago

So I've spent like a whole weekend trying to get it working using a library on ttn. My main problem was the fact that I don't know the pins to listen and send for the lora protocol. Indeed one to one of their thingy works . Even with the pihat again it works. I guess if they can share the schematics we can go forward and maybe could connect this to ttn. But I doubt it. More then sure the pins for in and out are being use.

jumbophp commented 3 years ago

@mikelinton as you can see from my testing I was having issues with mapping the pins.that library will work perfectly if they can just share the pi outs . I've tried the default ones for the 128 chip and it seems they don't work.

tdvantine commented 2 years ago

@lzomedia have you looked at the PDF in the hardware folder? It has a schematic of the circuits. I too bought these thinking they would work with LoRaWAn, and once I them, i also realized there was no FCCID on them and to me that was a sign they would never be supported for LoRaWAN officially.

mconlow commented 2 years ago

I also bought one of these thinking I could hook it up to LoRaWAN/TTN...

If anyone gets it working, I'd be very interested.

Has anyone found another LoRaWAN soil moisture sensor?

mconlow commented 2 years ago

Another path might be to forego the LoraWAN and just try to use this thing P2P over LoRa which would work in my use-case.

I have the "bonnet" for the Raspberry Pi https://www.adafruit.com/product/4074 and separately I have a LoRaWAN gateway https://www.adafruit.com/product/4284

Any suggestions from anyone on a python library I could use that would work on either of these devices that could pick up the packet from this moisture sensor?

Thanks in advance

flexmox commented 1 year ago

Check this out for a Helium based (can be configured for TTN) firmware: https://github.com/dirkbeer/Helium_MakerfabsSoilMoistureSensorV3