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User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual

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1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4

1.1 What is LPS8v2 ............................................................................................................................................................. 4

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Page 1 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Table of Contents 1. Introduction ..................................4 1.1 What is LPS8v2 ................................4 Page 1 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 2 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Table of Contents: • 1. Introduction • 1.1 What is LPS8v2 • 1.2 Speciﬁcations • 1.3 Features • 1.4 LED Indicators • 1.5 Button Intruction...
Page 3 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual • 2. Quick Start • 2.1 Access and Conﬁgure LPS8-V2 • 2.1.1 Find IP address of LPS8-V2 • Method 1: Connect via LPS8-V2 WiFi • Method 2: Connect via Ethernet with DHCP IP from the router •...
Page 4: Specifications
9.3 Fallback IP does not work, how can users check • 9.4 Click "Manual_Update", why there is no response? • 9.5 Why the LPS8V2's Access Point does not do not appear & Fallback IP unable to access • 9.6 How to reset the built-in server •...
Page 5: Led Indicators
User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual • Max Output Power: 27dBm Operating Condition: • Work Temperature: -20 ~ 70°C • Storage Temperature: -20 ~ 70°C • Power Input: 5V, 2A, DC 1.3 Features •...
Page 6: Quick Start
User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual When the gateway restores the factory settings is complete, The WiFi conﬁguration will enable WiFi Access Point by default. The other conﬁguration will be restored to the default conﬁguration.
Page 7 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Method 2: Connect via Ethernet with DHCP IP from the router Connect the LPS8-V2 Ethernet port to your router and LPS8-V2 can obtain an IP address from your router. In the router's management portal, you should be able to ﬁnd what IP address the router has assigned to the LPS8-V2.
Page 8 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Method 3: Connect via LPS8-V2 Fallback IP Steps to connect via fallback IP: 1. Connect the PC's Ethernet port to LPS8-V2's WAN port 2. Conﬁgure PC's Ethernet port has IP: 172.31.255.253 and Netmask: 255.255.255.252 Settings -->...
Page 9 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Conﬁgure computer Ethernet port steps video: fallback ip.mp4 : Trouble Shooting If you still can't access the LPS8-V2 fallback ip, follow this connection to debug 3. In the PC, use IP address 172.31.255.254 to access the LPS8-V2 via Web or Console.
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Page 11 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Method 4: Connect via WiFi with DHCP IP from the router Fill in the WiFi information by checking the box and clicking Save&Apply Wi-Fi conﬁguration successful Page 11 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 12 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 2.1.2 Access Conﬁgure Web UI Web Interface Open a browser on the PC and type the LPS8-V2 ip address (depends on your connect method) http://IP_ADDRESS or http://172.31.255.254(Fallback IP)
Page 13: Use Wan Port To Access Internet
User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual You will see the login interface of LPS8-V2 as shown below. The account details for Web Login are: User Name: root Password: dragino 2.2 Typical Network Setup 2.2.1 ...
Page 14 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 2.2.3 Access the Internet as a WiFi Client In the WiFi Client Mode, LPS8-V2 acts as a WiFi client and gets DHCP from an upstream router via WiFi.
Page 15: Use Built-In 4G Modem For Internet Access
2.2.4 Use built-in 4G modem for internet access Since Hardware version HP0C 1.4 Users can see whether LPS8v2 has EC25 on the label of the gateway to determine whether there is 3G/4G Cellular modem. If the LPS8-V2 has 3G/4G Cellular modem, user can use it as main internet connection or back up.
Page 16: Check Internet Connection
User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 2.2.5 Check Internet connection In the home page, we can check the Internet connection. • GREEN Tick : This interface has Internet connection. • Yellow Tick : This interface has IP address but don't use it for internet connection.
Page 17 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 2.3 The LPS8-V2 is registered and connected to The Things Network 2.3.1 Select your area frequency First, you need to set the frequency plan in LPS8-V2 to match the end node we use, so to receive the LoRaWAN packets from the LoRaWAN sensor.
Page 18 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 2.3.2 Get the only gateway EUI Every LPS8-V2 has a unique gateway id. The ID can be found on LoRaWAN Semtech page: Page 18 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 19 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Note: Choose the cluster that corresponds to a speciﬁc Gateway server address # Europe 1: corresponding Gateway server address: eu1.cloud.thethings.network # North America 1: corresponding Gateway server address: n am1.cloud.thethings.network # Australia 1: ...
Page 20 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 2.3.3 Register the gateway to The Things Network Login to The Things Network https://console.cloud.thethings.network/ Add the gateway Get it online Page 20 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 21 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 3. Web Conﬁgure Pages 3.1 Home Shows the system running status: 3.2 LoRa Settings 3.2.1 LoRa --> LoRa This page shows the LoRa Radio Settings. There is a set of default frequency bands according to LoRaWAN protocol, and users can customize the band* as well.
Page 22 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Note *: See this instruction for how to customize the frequency band: How to customized LoRaWAN frequency band - DRAGINO 3.3 LoRaWAN Settings 3.3.1 LoRaWAN --> LoRaWAN Semtech UDP This page is for the connection set up to a general LoRaWAN Network server such as TTN, ChirpStack, etc.
Page 23 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 3.3.2 LoRaWAN --> LoRaWAN Basic Station This page is for the connection set up to the TTN Basic Station, AWS-IoT, etc. Page 23 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 24: Network Settings
User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Please see this instruction to know more detail and a demo for how to use of LoRaWAN Basic Station: Use of LoRaWAN Basic Station - DRAGINO 3.4 Network Settings...
Page 25 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 3.4.2 Network --> System Status Page 25 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 26 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 3.4.3 Network --> Network In the Network --> Network interface, Users can set the Ethernet WAN static ip address. Page 26 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 27 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 3.4.4 Network --> Cellular In the Network --> Cellular interface, Users can Enable Cellular WAN and conﬁgure Celluar. Note: APN cannot be empty. After the conﬁguration is complete, return to the Home interface and put the mouse on the Cell icon to check the Cellular state.
Page 28 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Note: Known bugs: 4g consumes a lot of data which has been ﬁxed by the package: dragino-ui-230716 Reduce data method 3.5 System 3.5.1 System --> System Overview Shows the system info: Page 28 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 29 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 3.5.2 System --> System General In the System-> System General interface, Users can customize the conﬁguration System Password and set Timezone. In addition, Users can customize the FallBack IP address.
Page 30 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 3.5.3 System --> Backup/Restore 3.5.4 System --> Reboot / Reset In the System-> Reboot / Reset interface, users can can restart or reset the gateway. ETH LED will SOLID BULE Until the restore is ﬁnished.
Page 31 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 3.5.5 System --> Remoteit In the System-> Remoteit interface, users can conﬁgure the gateway to be accessed remotely via Remote.it. the users can refer to this link to conﬁgure them: Monitor &...
Page 32 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 3.5.6 System --> Package Management In the System --> Package Management interface, Users can check the current version of Core Packages. 4. Build-in Server After the v1.7-230606 version, the LPS8-V2 default factory pre-installed the LoRaWAN Server: ChirpStack-V4, Application Server: Node-Red.
Page 33 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 1). LoRaWAN Network Server: ChirpStack-V4 Page 33 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 34 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Note: The user can access the ChirpStack-V4 via click the 'Launch' button, and the login account: admin/admin For more information on server operations see Register LPSV2 to the built-in Chirpstack 2).
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Page 36 For the Node-Red, you can use the local IP address and the port is 1880 to access it. How to install InﬂuxDB, Garfana. • The LPS8V2 is not pre-installed with InﬂuxDB and Garfana, the users can install them, see InﬂuxDB How to upgrade the gateway node.js to the latest version. •...
Page 37 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Why my gateway is not Chirpstack? • After June '23, the default factory LPS8V2 pre-installed Chirpstack-V4 instead of The Things Stack, the users can migrate to Chistack-V4, see Change TTN Stack v3 to ChirpStack How to disable the built-in server...
Page 38 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual When the conﬁguration is complete, click "Save&Apply". Note: When adding the device proﬁle, the selected Region conﬁguration is also calculated from 0, so setting it to us915_1 corresponds to US915 Sub Band 2.
Page 39: Watch Dog
User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 5. Watch Dog LPS8-V2 supports the Watch Dog but is not enabled by the previous releases(2023-11-24 ) The uses can be via the below method to enable Watch Dog: wget -P /tmp/ http://repo.dragino.com/release/tool/watchdog/enable_watchdog.sh &&...
Page 40 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 6. How users can access LPS8-V2 using serial USB USB TTL to LPS8-V2 Connection: Port 1 of the UART on the LPS8-V2 is GND TXD <---> UART RXD (Gray line) RXD ...
Page 41 In the PC,you can use the serial port tool(such as putty in Windows), you need to set the serial baud rate to 115200 to access the serial console for LPS8v2. LPS8v2 will output system info once power on as below: Page 41 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 42 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 7. OTA System Update LPS8v2 supports system auto-update via OTA, please see this URL for the detail of this feature. 7.1 Auto-update method The default, each gateway will enable the auto-update function.
Page 43 Note: this method needs about 10 mins, so you will get the log after 10 mins. 8. FAQ 8.1 How to change Hostname By default, Hostname is dragino-xxxxxx,If the user needs to change the hostname, the user needs to access the linux console of LPS8v2 and enter the following command: hostnamectl set-hostname dragino-123456...
Page 44 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual After the conﬁguration is complete, run "reboot" to restart the gateway. 8.2 Build-in The Things Network migrate to ChirpStack Migrate guide: To stabilize the completion of the migration, The users can migrate in one of the following ways Method 1.
Page 45 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 2. Change the LoRa status package interval time: It does not aﬀect the connection between the gateway and the server, just the status packet interval Page 45 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 46 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 3. Disable the auto-update: Page 46 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 47 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 8.4 How to connect the helium blockchain as a Data-only hotspot apt update && apt install helium-gateway 8.5 How to change built-in LoRaWAN Server from ChirpStack v4 to TTN Stack v3.
Page 48 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual Station Log: When the gateway starts Basic Station, users can check the logs of the station in the LogRead --> System Log interface Page 48 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 49 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 8.6.2 4G Log The user needs to access the Linux console of the gateway and enter the following command: cat /var/log/qmilog.txt Page 49 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 50 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 8.6.3 Dmesg Log Users can check the logs of the Dmesg in the LogRead --> System Log interface: Page 50 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 51: Record Log
User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 8.6.4 Record Log Users can record DMESG logs and LoRaWAN logs on the LogRead -->Record Log interface Page 51 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 52 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 8.6.5 View gateway logs via Linux Command Semtech UDP Log : journalctl -u draginofwd -f Station Log: tail -f /var/log/station.log Dmesg Log: dmesg Page 52 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
Page 53 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 8.7 DIN Mount Reference: Page 53 / 60 - last modiﬁed by Xiaoling on 2024/03/20 14:19...
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Page 55: Troubleshooting
User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 9. Trouble Shooting 9.1 I can't log in to the built-in Server TTN Stack which shows 'Login failed'. This is caused by the inconsistency between the built-in TTN-Stack domain conﬁguration and your login URL.
Page 56 When this problem occurs, click "Update To DEFAULT" ,this problem will be ﬁxed. 9.3 Fallback IP does not work, how can users check When the computer has completed the above fallback IP conﬁguration,the LPS8v2 Web UI is still not accessible via fallback IP.
Page 57 User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 2. Check whether the ﬁrewall is disabled If the ﬁrewall is not down, this will aﬀect access to the gateway. 9.4 Click "Manual_Update", why there is no response? When you click "Manual_Update", the gateway will ﬁnish updating within 10 minutes and display the update log.
Page 58 9.5 Why the LPS8V2's Access Point does not do not appear & Fallback IP unable to access Earlier versions of the LPS8V2 which missing the AP driver and not installed the fallback package, so the users have to do an extra update. ...
Page 59: Order Info
User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual 9.6 How to reset the built-in server 1) Build-in The Things Network Refer to this link to delete the Built-in server's device. Delete devices from Build-in The Things Network 2) Build-in Chirpstack...
Page 60: Fcc Warning
User Manual for All Gateway models - LPS8v2 -- LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway User Manual • AU915: LoRaWAN AU915 band • EU868: LoRaWAN EU868 band • KR920: LoRaWAN KR920 band • US915: LoRaWAN US915 band • IN865: LoRaWAN IN865 band YYY: 4G Cellular Option •...

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