How to Configure xDot for Packet Forwarder

[William Laing]

Good Day –

We have seven gateways (Conduits and IP67s), running AEP firmware 1.6.4, and several of these are running as Network Server successfully at client sites.

We know have use cases for Packet Forwarder. We see how to configure the gateway using AEP. But we cannot find any reference about how to configure the xDot end device.

(1) How do we configure the xDot for Packet Forwarder?
(2) The Conduit as Packet Forwarder is near the xDot, but how would we demonstrate that the packets are being forwarded and not just received by radio by the destination Network Server which is about 100 meters away?

On the Network Server AEP, LoRaWAN->Gateways->Packets Received show the packets coming in from other gateways. We see an occasional increment in packets from the Packet Forwarder gateway, but the packet count of the Network Server increments almost every time.

Thanks in advance for your help.

William Laing

[Jason Reiss]

The MQTT messages contain gateway information.

$ mosquitto_sub -v -t lora/+/+/packet_recv

lora/<GW-EUI>/<DEV-EUI>/packet_recv {"tmst":...}

$ mosquitto_sub -v -t lora/+/up

{..."gweui":"<GW-EUI>"...}

[Jason Reiss]

And the xDot does not need special configuration to work with packet forwarder.

[William Laing]

Great, Jason, thank you as always for the help!

Now that you mentioned the mosquitto_sub commands, (1) I believe can use the AEP API commands as well.

In the meantime, I found a section titled “Setting Up the mDot Using Manual Join” at http://www.multitech.net/developer/software/lora/conduit-mlinux-convert-to-basic-packet-forwarder/ .

(2) Should I configure the xDot as suggested above?

(3) Network Servers can be configured to a range of frequency sub-bands. Packet Forwarders are at FSB=1. Will Packet Forwarders receive all Xdot uplinks, no matter how the xDot is configured (AT+NI, AT+NK, etc.)?

Thank you.

[Jason Reiss]

OTA and ABP will work.

Packet forwarders are stateless. They Rx packets on the frequencies and forward to network server.

[William Laing]

Okay, Jason – got it, thanks.

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