Advice on creating a private LoRa network

Lateralleap
Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:10:33 +0000
Raspberry Pi Gateways

Apologies in advance as I am a LoRa newbie.

I want to create a private LoRa network with nodes communicating with my own gateway/ concentrator

My plan is to use a Raspberry PI and a suitable HAT for the gateway and use proprietary nodes probably based upon SparkFun Pro RF boards

The PI will communicate via HTTP with my own publically hosted website so I see no need for being LoraWAN compatible

So can I just use any Lora HAT for the PI regardless of whather it is TTN compatible?

Are there any other issues I need to watch out for in terms of the node boards being compatible with the concentrator, other than frequency of course?

What software should I run on the PI if I don’t need TTN integration? Is it still worth running ChirpStack for example?

Many thanks

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