Arduino Pro Gateway LoRa® Connectivity

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Hi,

I recently bought 2 Arduino Pro Gateways LoRa® Connectivity and I'm trying to use them with my own network server. Although I know it is possible to use Arduino Cloud and have my "things" connected to my gateway using this service, I prefer to maintain my own network server. With that said, I wonder:

  • Is there a way for me to change the configurations on the packet forwarder that comes with the board?
  • If the option above is not possible, how can I upload Semtech's packet forwarder to the board? I know that Semtech's packet forwarder can be used in a Raspberry Pi, but when I tried to allow SSH connection on the Raspberry Pi, nothing happened (I'm assuming the system came locked, and no changes are possible to make to it?
  • Is there a way to connect to the board without it being through the web interface? As I said before, I managed to connect to the Raspberry Pi (I actually connected it to a monitor), but there is nothing much I can do on the Raspberry)

If anyone can shed some light on any of my questions, I would appreciate

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Hi nibia

Have you found out anything more regarding this? I'm in the same boat here.

The only option I currently see is MKR WAN -> Gateway -> A2A -> Arduino IoT -> implement web hook.

I find the support / documentation around the Gateway shocking so far, especially considering the price tag:

  • Only one container (pktfwd) supplied, seemingly locked, unconfigurable and sole purpose to forward messages from the gateway via A2A's network to the Arduino IoT cloud.
  • Missing background info on how containers are used in the setup.
  • Missing background info on what the listed packages are (I only get errors trying to install/update them).
  • Missing background info on how / when /where to access repositories.
  • There's the ability to upload sketches to the Gateway's RPi, but beyond printing something to the serial monitor in IDE, I don't really know what to do with it (no libraries, examples, handles to catch WAN messages and process).

Frustratingly ill-supported for a learning platform.

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Very sad issue. That LoRa Pro thing is totally locked to Arduino Cloud. No way to get out, no doc on the hardware. It turn out to be the most expensive Pi I've ever bought.
Want to connect to TTN - but no chance with that 400 EUR piece of solder.

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proxiss:
Want to connect to TTN - but no chance with that 400 EUR piece of solder.

Maybe Arduino were hoping someone in the 'community' would write the code for them.

Producing a LoRa IOT device with no information on how to connect to TTN is weird, even a $2 Arduino Pro Mini can do that ....................