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OpenWRT on Pine64 PineDio LoRa GW

This fork add support for the Pine64 PineDio LoRa Gateway in OpenWRT. This fork is based on OpenWRT 23.05.05.

The following changes are needed for the LoRa Packet Forwarder to run and connect to The Things Network:

• PATCH Edit the DTS file to enable SPI0 and UART2. Those peripherals are needed to communicate with the LoRa module and its GPS.
• Modify the package sx1302_hal to build the packet_forwarder application and to fix 2 issues
  • Makefile Disable the temperature sensor which does not seems to be available on our board (to be confirmed)
  • PATCH Move a big buffer from the stach to the heap to avoid a SEFGAULT (the size of the stack on OpenWRT is probably smaller than on regular Linux OS).

How to build

Follow the original instructions from OpenWRT. The only additional step consists in copying .config_pine64_pinedio_lora_gw into .config to ensure that all options and settings are correctly applied to work with the LoRa gateway.

git clone git@github.com:JF002/openwrt.git -b pinedio-lora-gw
cd openwrt
./scripts/feeds update -a
./scripts/feeds install -a
cp .config_pine64_pinedio_lora_gw .config
make 

How to run the lora packet forwarder?

How to run other test programs ?

TODO

• Automatically start the forwarder at boot time
• Enable WiFi
• Provide generic configuration file for the lora packet forwarder application and document how to edit them
• Enable logs for the lora packet forwarder

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