PG1302 on Raspberry PI4 as Basic Station

artichoke
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:38:43 +0000

Yeah I’m working on a very similar setup - getting PG1302 and Pi 4 to connect to TTN through lora basics protocol. In the dragino documentation there is info on how to install the standalone forwarder.

I installed it, on raspberry pi os lite, but it is missing crucial parts from the /etc/station directory including the binary itself and the generate-config script.

The pre-built image also doesn’t seem to work for me. I have flashed it to several different SD cards but I can’t get it to boot - I just get the unable to mount rootfs error.

I emailed dragino a week ago about these issues and got no response.

If any updates arise, please let us know. This is getting frustrating because just bought a $250 dollar gateway and the provided software does not work as documented, dragino docs are hopeless, and the manufacturer won’t provide support. I even looked into using chirpstack gateway os but it looks like the frequency band for my country isn’t even supported by their software yet.