I am trying to use my T-Beam as a LoRa repeater. I want it to obtain signals from the esp32 and/or RAK and then forward it to the gateway. The problem is I can't find anything related to this. I am unsure if I need to use LoRaWan or LoRa p2p to send the data from the node to the repeater?
Thank you
Well, you dont really forward packets to a Gateway, you transmit a packet and it will be picked up by all gateways in range.
Why do you think you need a repeater ?
The reason is I am working on a project as an intern and I would like to have a repeater since some nodes might be a bit too far from the gateways.
On the other hand, I am actually struggling to send data to the gateway even without the repeater by the T-Beam. I tried to use the Heltec ESP32 Dev-Boards library examples and I found out that it was designed fo the esp32 s3, not the esp32. Would you happen to know of a method or example that I can use my T-Beam to send signals to the gateway?
Thank you
In most cases LoRaWAN uses up to 8 different channels, so a separate 'repeater' would need to be listening on each of the channels.
Never used a T-Beam for a LoRaWAN node as they have a significant power requirement, not much good for portable battery type operation.