Send ADR via node-red

[Lawrence Griffiths]

ARD works well in most cases but I need to have means of node-red Application setting the Date rate of end-node one to help with collisions, the other when ADR seems undecided about Lowering the Data rate of a poor performing end node.

Any way I can do this?

BTW I came across this in LoRaWAN spec says “The application layer should always try to minimize the aggregated air time used given the network conditions.” Any one know what they mean by this?

Thanks
Lawrence

• This topic was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Lawrence Griffiths.

[Jason Reiss]

An ADR command can be sent from the application using port 0 if ADR is enabled on the end-point. Otherwise application messages could be used.

The context of this is when the network/device cannot use ADR. The application should use the best datarate to minimize time-on-air rather then the datarate with the greatest reach.

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Jason thanks is it as simple as sending the following from a function node to lora-out node

var msg = {
“payload”: 0x50ff0001,
“eui”: “00:11:22:33:44:55:66:88”,
“ack”: true,
“port”: 0
};

// MAC LinkADRReq cmd
// 50ff0001
03 LinkADRReq Mac cmd 03
5 DataRate ms nibble of DataRate_TXPower
0 TXPower ls nibble of DataRate_TXPower
ff00 ChMask
01 Redundancy

I copied 50ff0001 from AEP logs and used to understand the mac command. One thing that I noticed if my understanding is correct the TX power setting is 0 which in EU section of LoRaWAN Regional Parameters 20 dBm I thought 14 dBm was mx power for EU?

[Jason Reiss]

Content looks good, but add the 03 command type as the first byte.
The payload data type should be a string or buffer.

+14 dBm is max for all but 869.4-869.65 MHz band
The MAC layer in mDot will lower according to used frequency.

[Ajay K]

Hi Lawrence,

I get the part of the lowering the data rate, but how do you figure out which node you need to target from node-red? Are you parsing the lora uplink packets to see what data rate it is operating at and deciding based on that?

Thanks,
Ajay

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Ajay, when we think we are having collisions ADR has both end-nodes on same SF so my understanding is (with in power limits) two end-nodes on TX on same channel same time if the both have dif SF they will both be processed.

Also we have a situation where RF environment changes and has caused well performing nodes to fall off net occasionally coming back online. ADR needs to at least 20 packets to access a change in DR. So when we see a nodes who RSSI has a big delta we want to take action then.

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Jason have tried and not got the outcome I hoped for
Looks like the PORT is set to 1 from last block

17:6:25:715|DEBUG|ED:0e-7e-34-64-33-30-67-44|PACKET-TX|ADDR: 00000001 PORT: 1 ACK: 0 FCNT: 00000005

// MAC TX followed by Node-RED mac

16:58:58:443|DEBUG|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|FRAME-TX|DATA: 600100000005010003520700017bce238a
17:6:25:716|DEBUG|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|FRAME-TX|DATA: 6001000000000500018a8e0a31f16a39f031

var macBuf = new Buffer(‘0340070001′,’hex’);
var msg = {
“payload”: macBuf,
“eui”: “0e:7e:34:64:33:30:67:44”,
“ack”: false,
“port”: 0
};
`
// ADR from network server – works

 
16:58:57:709|INFO|ED:0e-7e-34-64-33-30-67-44|SCHED-TX|Use RX1 TOA:56 ms
16:58:57:715|DEBUG|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|FRAME-RX|JSON: {"chan":0,"codr":"4/5","data":"QAEAAACCCAADBxQpdEA7z/Ew","datr":"SF7BW125","freq":868.10000000000002,"lsnr":9.8000000000000007,"modu":"LORA","rfch":0,"rssi":-33,"size":18,"stat":1,"time":"2017-07-05T16:58:57.678346Z","tmst":3861837027}
16:58:58:439|INFO|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|FRAME-TX|IP: 127.0.0.1:47267 CH: LC1 NODE: 00:00:00:01 FCNT: 00000002 REPEAT: 0
16:58:58:443|INFO|ED:0e-7e-34-64-33-30-67-44|MAC-COMMAND|ADR CMD 0352070001
16:58:58:443|INFO|ED:0e-7e-34-64-33-30-67-44|SCHED-TX|Q-SIZE: 0 PKT-SIZE: 528 PKT-ROOM: 237
16:58:58:443|DEBUG|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|FRAME-TX|DATA: 600100000005010003520700017bce238a
16:58:58:444|DEBUG|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|PACKET-TX|RX1 OFFSET: 1000000
16:58:58:477|DEBUG|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|FRAME-TX|JSON: {"txpk":{"appeui":"00-00-01-00-00-aa-aa-aa","codr":"4/5","data":"YAEAAAAFAQADUgcAAXvOI4o","datr":"SF7BW125","deveui":"0e-7e-34-64-33-30-67-44","freq":868.10000000000002,"ipol":true,"modu":"LORA","ncrc":true,"powe":11,"rfch":0,"size":17,"tmst":3862837027}}
16:58:58:484|DEBUG|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|DUTY-CYCLE|BAND: 1 DUTY: 34883
16:58:58:484|INFO|Update DC Band: 1 Duration: 51 time-on-air available: 34832 ms

Failed form Node-RED

lora/0e:7e:34:64:33:30:67:44/down : [msg.payload] : string
{"data":"A0AHAAE=","ack":false,"port":"0"}

17:6:25:671|INFO|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|FRAME-TX|IP: 127.0.0.1:47267 CH: LC1 NODE: 00:00:00:01 FCNT: 00000006 REPEAT: 0
17:6:25:715|INFO|ED:0e-7e-34-64-33-30-67-44|SCHED-TX|Q-SIZE: 1 PKT-SIZE: 5 PKT-ROOM: 242
17:6:25:715|DEBUG|ED:0e-7e-34-64-33-30-67-44|PACKET-TX|ADDR: 00000001 PORT: 1 ACK: 0 FCNT: 00000005
17:6:25:716|DEBUG|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|FRAME-TX|DATA: 6001000000000500018a8e0a31f16a39f031
17:6:25:716|DEBUG|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|PACKET-TX|RX1 OFFSET: 1000000
17:6:25:718|DEBUG|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|FRAME-TX|JSON: {"txpk":{"appeui":"00-00-01-00-00-aa-aa-aa","codr":"4/5","data":"YAEAAAAABQABio4KMfFqOfAx","datr":"SF7BW125","deveui":"0e-7e-34-64-33-30-67-44","freq":868.10000000000002,"ipol":true,"modu":"LORA","ncrc":true,"powe":11,"rfch":0,"size":18,"tmst":15101763}}
17:6:25:719|DEBUG|GW:00:80:00:00:00:00:9a:26|DUTY-CYCLE|BAND: 1 DUTY: 36000
17:6:25:722|INFO|Update DC Band: 1 Duration: 51 time-on-air available: 35949 ms

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Lawrence Griffiths.
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[Jason Reiss]

Looks like port as string “0” is not being parsed correctly. It should be an integer in JSON. Not sure if this is node-red or the lora-out nodes doing.

17:6:25:715|DEBUG|ED:0e-7e-34-64-33-30-67-44|PACKET-TX|ADDR: 00000001 PORT: 1 ACK: 0 FCNT: 00000005

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Jason you can’t overwrite the lora-out node port setting from input msg. You can only set it from the node options. I take a look at the nodejs and see what that yields. But feel like we are in Bug territory .

Do think this NR/out as it passed the downlink msg a JSON to MQTT which assume feeds the lora network server.

lora/0e:7e:34:64:33:30:67:44/down : [msg.payload] : string
{“data”:”A0AHAAE=”,”ack”:false,”port”:”0″}


var msg = { data: new Buffer(payload).toString("base64"), ack: ack_config, port: port_config };
client.publish('lora/' + eui + '/down', JSON.stringify(msg));


• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Lawrence Griffiths.

[Jason Reiss]

lora-out node is a light wrapper over MQTT

MQTT Node
msg.topic = “lora//down”;
msg.payload = ‘{“data”:”A0AHAAE=”,”port”:0}’;

Command line

mosquitto_pub -t lora//down -m ‘{“data”:”A0AHAAE=”,”port”:0}’

UDP is also an option.

UDP:1786
# nc -u localhost 1786

lora/0e:7e:34:64:33:30:67:44/down {“data”:”A0AHAAE=”,”ack”:false,”port”:0}

[Lawrence Griffiths]

That worked
msg.topic = “lora/devEUI/down”;
msg.payload = ‘{“data”:”A0AHAAE=”,”port”:0}’;

Think the issue in lora-out node not doing type testing on port no.
Will mod and test think there should be something like port_config = parseInt(port_config, 10);

Thanks for your help Jason

[Jason Reiss]

Thanks to you. I will log an incident to get this updated in AEP.

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Let me test the change first I do tomorrow as it’s 10pm hear in UK.. thta’s me for the night

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Jason it looks like parseInt(port_config, 10); fixed that issue in lora.js`

node.on('input', function(msg) {
var eui = msg.eui || config.eui;
var payload = msg.payload || config.payload;
var ack_config = msg.ack || config.ack;
var port_config = msg.port || config.port;
port_config = parseInt(port_config, 10);


But there is another bug you can’t override the node port setting from msg.port also if you set the node config port drop down to blank you get null in port no

{"data":"A0AHAAE=","ack":false,"port":null}

Could you pls raise ticket for both of these thanks.
Lawrence

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Lawrence Griffiths.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Lawrence Griffiths.

[Ajay K]

Thanks a Lawrence your earlier response. I still don’t understand how you would find out when to send, when one of the nodes is not able to communicate with the conduit, since in class A you can’t even send a packet to the mdot, without mdot successfully uplinking packet. Can MAC commands be sent without such restrictions.

In my case most of the nodes seem to be falling under the second scenario you have mentioned i.e.

Also we have a situation where RF environment changes and has caused well performing nodes to fall off net occasionally coming back online. ADR needs to at least 20 packets to access a change in DR. So when we see a nodes who RSSI has a big delta we want to take action then.

What did you mean by “when we see a nodes whose RSSI has a big delta”?

Thanks,
Ajay

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