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RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual UM01811 RHF2S208 User Manual V1.1 Document information Info Content Keywords RisingHF, LoRa Gateway, Instruction, web-based utility This document describes how to use RHF2S208, which Abstract includes content about configuration, development and so on.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Content 1 Preface................................... 1 2 Quick Start................................2 2.1 Get to know about your gateway.........................2 2.2 Set up your gateway............................. 3 2.2.1 Power supply............................4 2.2.2 Networking...............................4 2.2.3 Debug and Configure..........................4 2.3 Log into your gateway...........................5 2.3.1 Login with COM port..........................5 2.3.2 Login with DHCP............................
1 Preface RHF2S208 is an IoT gateway/concentrator which integrates POE, LTE/4G/3G, GPS, WiFi and LoRa, designed and manufactured by RisingHF. This document will describe how to use and configure RHF2S208, for end-user and developer usage. Covers: Quick start Get to know about your gateway ...
ANT1 ANT3 ANT4 ANT5 : The RHF2S208 gateway have 4 antenna ports. ANT1 is for LoRa antenna (ANT2 is not used at this moment). ANT3 is for GPS antenna. ANT4 is for WiFi Antenna. ANT5 is for LTE Antenna.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 2-1 Apperance of RHF2S208 2.2 Set up your gateway Please set up your gateway like Figure 2-2 shown below. V1.1 2018-10-9 www.risinghf.com...
Figure 2-2 Set up your gateway 2.2.1 Power supply RHF2S208 could be powered by both AC/DC adapter and PoE injector. An high reliability industrial IP67 AC to DC adapter is configured for each gateway when it comes out from the factory. Specially, a 3.2Ah LiFePo4 battery is integrated for RHF2S208Bxx.
PC with a type A female to type A female USB cable and you will find a COM port. Open the Etraputty and select “Serial” connection type with COM3 port for example and baudrate=115200. Figure 2-3 Login with COM port Then input user name “rxhf” and password “risinghf” to log into the system. V1.1 2018-10-9 www.risinghf.com...
Figure 2-4 Login with user name and password 2.3.2 Login with DHCP Connect your gateway with DHCP router, log in router or scan IP to get RHF2S208 ip. Hostname of your gateway is "RHF2S208". After get ip, user could use SSH tool to log the device check or set configuration.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 2-5 Login with DHCP Linux ssh rxhf@192.168.0.182 2.3.3 Login with WiFi Scan the WiFi SSID with your PC and you will find your gateway whose SSID is RHF2S208_xxxxxx end with the last 3 bytes of the MAC address of the gateway. Connect your gateway to this WiFi. The default ip of the WiFi gateway is 192.168.8.1.
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RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 2-6 SCAN and find the WiFi SSID of your gateway Figure 2-7 Login with WiFi V1.1 2018-10-9 www.risinghf.com...
2.4 Connect to a LoRaWAN server 2.4.1 Connect to a standard packet forwarder server Standard Semtech Packet forwarder service is support by RHF2S208 series gateway. You could connect the gateway to any target server support packet forwarder interface. Please follow step below...
5) Use command to disable and stop loriot serivce sudo systemctl stop loriot-gw.service sudo systemctl disable loriot-gw.service 3 Device File System RHF2S208 firmware use Systemd structure. User could use systemctl and journalctl to manage the integrated services and check log. 3.1 Log In User name: rxhf Password: risinghf V1.1 2018-10-9...
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual 3.2.1 /opt /opt contains the working directory of most LoRaWAN serivices. And this will be updating when there is more services added. Figure 3-1 /opt file in gateway 3.2.2 /usr/local /usr/local contains most of internal services of the gateway.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual 4 Web-based utility With the web-based utility, it is easily to configure and manage your gateway. Default user name: rxhf Default password: risinghf There are two ways to open the built-in web of your gateway: 1) Connect your PC to the WiFi of your gateway and use 192.168.8.1 to open the built-in web with the web browser.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 4-4 Built-in Web page after login 4.1 Status bar A status bar show some key status of the hardware. Users could have a quick glimpse to check status of the hardware of your gateway. Each parameters on the status bar have 3 status with different color.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual For series RHF2S20xExx which have no internal battery, the bar “Internal Battery Supply” is grey. For series RHF2S208xxx which have just LoRa module 0 only support 8 channels, the bar “LoRa module 1” is grey. 4.2 Navigation bar...
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 4-7 Device information of RHF2S208 4.2.2 LoRaWAN Configuration With LoRaWAN Configuration you could do: 1) LoRaWAN Configuration (Connect to a LoRaWAN server) Protocol version: select standard packet forwarder or other protocol to connect to a target server Gateway ID: fill in the gateway ID.
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RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 4-8 LoRaWAN configuration 2) Noise floor scanning Noise floor scanning is a very useful tool when you want to check that there is some interfernce or noise in the band your gateway work. Please fill in the Start Frequency and Stop Frequency and click Start Scanning to start noise scan. The default scanning band is 2MHz if you just input start frequency.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 4-10 Noise cannning example @470 to 472MHz 4.2.3 Network Configuration The network configuration panel is for WiFi configuration. You could re-configure the ip address of the WiFi router from default 192.168.8.1 to any you want. SSID name and password also could be modified as you want.
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RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 4-12 System Analysis Log 2) LTE analysis log LTE analysis log could be used to check and analyse the offline issue, which include the dialing log. Figure 4-13 LTE Analysis Log 3) Ethernet Analysis Log Ethernet analysis log record the connection and disconnection between the gateway and the ethernet.
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RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 4-14 Ethernet Analysis Log 4) Runtime Log Each time the gateway power on or reboot will trigger a log, which we call runtime log. With this log, we could know that when the gateway is reboot or powered on.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 4-17 Temperature Analysis Log 7) Power Management Log Power management log include the power on/off log and discarging log with battery supply. With this log, you could check it when the gateway is off or restart abnormaly.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 4-19 Firmware Upgrade 4.3 Shortcut button There is a shortcut button list on the upper right corner of the web page. With this shortcut button list, you can do quick diagnosis, system reset, set priority of the backhaul networking and sign out.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 4-22 Quick Diagnosis ongoing Figure 4-23 Quick Diagnosis complete NOTE: The system will be reboot after quick diagnosis. 4.3.2 System Reset System Reset is used to reset the system. When you click “system reset” bar on the shortcut button list, a “Whether To Restart The Gatway”...
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual Figure 4-25 System Reset progress ongoing 4.3.3 Networking Backhaul You could configure the priority of the networking. 4G LTE is the first choice in default. But the networking will be switched to wired 10/100m ethernet automatically if 4G LTE is off-line. And you could re-configure the priority.
Sign out button will make it return to the login web page. 5 LoRaWAN Server Solutions According to the different request, user could choose which server to connect to. RHF2S208 integrates several third party manufacture’s server like Loriot.io and Loraflow.io, and also preinstall the packet forwarder program for customer’s convenience.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual In combination with description above, SX1301 has below features: 1. One SX1301 supports 2 Radios. SX1255 or SX1257 can be used . 2. One SX1301 could support maximum 10 channels, of which 8 Multi-SF channels, 1 standard channel and 1 FSK channel.
`ls -l /opt/risinghf/pktfwd` /opt/risinghf/pktfwd 3. Physical frequency which is supported by RHF2S208 is decided by the hardware. For example RHF2S208xxx-470 only support 470MHz frequency band, doesn’t support 433MHz, 868MHz etc... 4. Other undocumented channels plans, user could calculate each channel frequency according to the previous description.
5.2.1 Register RHF2S208 Gateway 1) Get MAC address, which is in format xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx. MAC address is sticky on the side of the RHF2S208 device. You could also use command ifconfig to get the MAC address or find it on the web-based utility.
Set gateway frequency, open loriot console find gateway page. Choose frequency plan. Check online documentation for more details. https://cn1.loriot.io/home/documentation.html#docu/frequency-plan 5.2.4 Loriot Firmware Upgrade Please download loriot-risinghf-RHF2S208-xxxxxx-SPI-0-latest.bin file, and replace /opt/loriot/bin/loriot- sudo su cd /opt/loriot/bin wget URL -O loriot-gw Please get the actual URL from the gateway page.
6.1 Networking Backhaul 6.1.1 Cellular Network (LTE/4G/3G) RHF2S208 device embedded service for wireless networking backhaul which is named lte, and is an auto start service. Use below command to check log of lte service: sudo journalctl -f -n 200 -u lte...
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RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual ifconfig ppp0 After dial-up success, system will generate ppp0 device. rxhf@RHF2S208:~$ ifconfig ppp0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:10.65.6.136 P-t-P:10.64.64.64 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:56 (56.0 B)
Figure 6-1 Eth0 interface 6.1.3 Networking priority choice RHF2S208 could connect to the cloud server with wireless 4G LTE networking or wired 10/100m ethernet networking. And you could set the priority of the two modes on the web-based utility. The system would be reboot after you reconfigure the priority of the networking for backhaul, then you could use command route to check if the priority is changed or not.
The last 6 characters are same for both SSID and the password, which are the last 3 bytes of the MAC address. Then you can use 192.168.8.1 to access into the gateway on the web-based utility. Figure 6-4 Scan WiFi SSID of RHF2S208 V1.1 2018-10-9 www.risinghf.com...
You could also use command ifconfig to check the interface Wlan0. Figure 6-6 Use command to check interface Wlan0 6.3 Use GPS module RHF2S208 embedded on board GPS module (MAX-7Q), which is necessary for LoRaWAN Class B network. Access gps module through , default baud rate 9600.
RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual $GPVTG,,,,,,,,,N*30 $GPGGA,095521.00,,,,,0,00,99.99,,,,,,*6C $GPGSA,A,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,99.99,99.99,99.99*30 $GPGSV,4,1,13,01,70,146,,03,09,158,,07,75,257,,08,36,031,*77 $GPGSV,4,2,13,09,15,217,,11,80,034,,16,06,101,,17,14,253,*7D $GPGSV,4,3,13,22,17,134,,23,05,183,,27,06,051,,28,20,314,*7B $GPGSV,4,4,13,30,41,313,*4C $GPGLL,,,,,095521.00,V,N*40 6.4 Temperature monitor A temperature monitor is integrated inside your gateway. You could use both command sudo get_temp to get the temperature or download the tempmerature log with the web-based utility.
6.7 Remote Support with rssh service RHF2S208 integrates a rssh service, which could enable RisingHF to access your RHF2S208 device remotely. It is closed by default. (Note: this function can be only used by RisingHF to support customer when necessary)
7.2 Bootloader Mode Set RHF2S208 to entern Bootloader mode 1) Cut off RHF2S208 power 2) Connect Micro USB cable let RHF2S208 to connect with PC 3) Restart RHF2S208 4) Bootloader mode enabled 7.3 Program Check online document to burn RHF2S208 firmware.
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RisingHF RHF2S208 User Manual 8 FAQ Q1: Customized global_conf.json file can’t be recognized by packet forwarder? A1: Check below rule. Every object must end with comma, except the last member of a object or array. ( // and /* */ are special comment format, no need consider it)
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Figure 8-1 select the right radio front-end for your gateway when registered in Loriot server Q8: Forget the WiFi password A8: Please contact with support@risinghf.com to get help. Q9: Can I use WiFi for networking backhaul A9: No. WiFi is just for configuration and debugging at the moment.
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FCC Requirement changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment. This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause...
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