Summary of Contents for Gumstix Overo
- Page 1 Overo™ Conduit Setup Guide Bring-up guide for Gumstix Overo LoRaWAN gateway board with thethingsnetwork.org Revised October 2, 2017...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Overo™ Conduit Setup Guide Gumstix, Inc. © 2017 October 2, 2017 Contents 1 Introduction 2 Material 3 Setup 3.1 Hardware ........... . . -
Page 3: Introduction
The Overo™ Conduit gateway development board from Gumstix is an Ethernet-connected expansion board for the Gumstix COM. This board, combined with an Overo EarthSTORM™or AirSTORM™, and a RisingHF RHF0M301 Lo- RaWAN gateway/concentrator module, and sub-GHz antenna, acts as a Wide Area Network(WAN) hub for IoT de- vices. - Page 4 Figure 2: Lora network topology. (src: William Wong, Electronic Design) The following guide will assist in the initial setup and configuration of the COM, board and software in order to operate the gateway on thethingsnetwork.org. It provides links, images and step by step instructions for configuring the device.
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Page 5: Material
Material Figure 3: Required materials In order to connect and configure the Overo Conduit gateway you will require the following: • Overo Conduit gateway board (store.gumstix.com/overo-lora.html) • RisingHF RHF0M301 gateway/concentrator module (www.risinghf.com/product/rhf0m301/) • Overo COM (store.gumstix.com/coms/overo-coms.html) • 5V 3A DC pwer supply (store.gumstix.com/accessories/wall-adapters/5v35a-us-power-adapter.html) •... -
Page 6: Setup
– Europe: 868MHz, 434MHz Gumstix provides various kits for the Overo Conduit and Gumstix Pi Conduit gateways that include many of the required components at for North American and European regions. store.gumstix.com/kits.html In addition to the hardware listed above, you will also require an account on TheThingsNetwork (TTN) and a gateway configured in your TTN console. -
Page 7: Disk Image
Figure 5: Connecting LoRa gateway module 3. Connect the Ethernet cable, power adapter, and antenna(s) Figure 6: All components connected Disk Image A custom disk image is available for the Overo Conduit board at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8lrAesohhgnc1Y5TzFVS3NkSW8... -
Page 8: Packet Forwarder
./packet-forwarder –config pkt-fwd.yml –ignore-crc Copy the script into \home\root\ on the SD card, insert it into the slot on the Overo COM and plug in the device. SSH into it and run the script. The gateway should now be sending and receiving packets from the TTN API. -
Page 9: Appendices
Appendices start_packet_forwarder.sh #!/bin/sh # Toggle reset GPIO echo "21" > /sys/class/gpio/export echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio21/direction echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio21/value sleep 1 echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio21/value sleep 1 echo "0" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio21/value # Create symlink to spidev1@0 if [ -c "/dev/spidev0.0" ] then echo "spidev0.0 already exists"... - Page 10 External Links https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8lrAesohhgnc1Y5TzFVS3NkSW8, 5 https://github.com/TheThingsNetwork/packet_forwarder, 6 store.gumstix.com/accessories/wall-adapters/5v35a-us-power-adapter.html, 3 store.gumstix.com/coms/overo-coms.html, 3 store.gumstix.com/kits.html, 4 store.gumstix.com/overo-lora.html, 3 thethingsnetwork.org, 2, 6 www.risinghf.com/product/rhf0m301/, 3...
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