ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder

ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder is a Semtech UDP and ChirpStack Concentratord to MQTT forwarder. It is intended to run on the gateway and is a more lightweight alternative to the ChirpStack Gateway Bridge such that it can run on gateways with a limited amount of flash memory.

Documentation and binaries

Please refer to the ChirpStack website for documentation and pre-compiled binaries.

Building from source

Requirements

Building ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder requires:

• Nix (recommended) and
• Docker

Nix

Nix is used for setting up the development environment which is used for local development and for creating the binaries.

If you do not have Nix installed and do not wish to install it, then you can use the provided Docker Compose based Nix environment. To start this environment execute the following command:

make docker-devshell

Note: You will be able to run the test commands and run cargo build, but cross-compiling will not work within this environment (because it would try start Docker within Docker).

Docker

Docker is used by cross-rs for cross-compiling, as well as some of the make commands.

Starting the development shell

Run the following command to start the development shell:

nix-shell

Or if you do not have Nix installed, execute the following command:

make docker-devshell

Running tests

Start required services

ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder depends on a MQTT broker for running the tests. You need to start this service manually if you started the development shell using nix-shell:

docker-compose up -d

Run tests

Execute the following command to run the tests:

make test

Building binaries

Execute the following commands to build the ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder binaries and packages:

# Only build binaries
make build

# Build binaries + distributable packages.
make dist

License

ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder is distributed under the MIT license. See also LICENSE.