pylorawan

Pylorawan is a Micropython wrapper for lorawan devices from RAK Wireless.

Originally tested on a Raspberry PI Pico with a RAK4200(H) Evaluation Board (868MHz) (bought direct from RAK Wireless: https://rakwireless.kckb.st/821e96d1 )

It now also supports the RAK3172 device.

It uses the RAK devices' built-in AT command support to join The Things Network and send data.

How do I use this?

1. Create an account on The Things Network / The Things Stack Community Edition and register your device and create an application
2. Update the creds_config__example.py with the keys from your device and The Things Network (TTN)
3. Rename the file creds_config__example.py to creds_config.py
4. Ensure that you use the right region (I'm in Europe, so I use EU868, in the USA you would use: US915, in India: IN865 etc)
5. Connect the Pico and the RAK device. Ensuring that:
   • The Pico UART Tx connects to the UART Rx on the RAK device
   • The Pico UART Rx connects to the UART Tx on the RAK device
6. Upload the files, pylorawan.py, creds_config.py and simple_example_<YOUR_DEVICE>.py to the Pico using Thonny
7. Open simple_example_<YOUR_DEVICE>.py in Thonny and hit play. If debug is set to True, you should get debug like this:

And when connected, hopefully a few seconds later, in the TTN console you should see this: