Turned a second-hand Nebra LoRa hotspot into a private…
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Turned a second-hand Nebra LoRa hotspot into a private LoRaWAN gateway with ChirpStack v4 — free setup script
Bought a Nebra Rock Pi Indoor Hotspot from eBay for cheap and spent a few weeks getting it working as a private LoRaWAN gateway running ChirpStack v4. It's now receiving real sensor data — currently tracking a Browan TBOL100 GPS locator.
The hardware is a Rock Pi 4B+ with a Nebra Indoor LoRa HAT running Armbian. Getting it working was harder than it should have been — the SPI overlay system is broken on current Armbian builds, and the older concentrator module has a hardware quirk on its reset line that isn't documented anywhere.
I've published a one-script installer and full writeup so nobody else has to spend weeks on this:
https://github.com/mowaxuk/chirpstack-nebra-rockpi
The script handles both the older GL5712-UX module (SX1301) and the newer RAK2287 (SX1302), auto-detects which one you have, sets up the full ChirpStack stack (PostgreSQL, Redis, Mosquitto, concentrator, mqtt-forwarder), and sorts out all the hardware-specific GPIO and SPI fixes.
Cost of the whole setup was basically the price of a second-hand Nebra unit off eBay. Good alternative to a Raspberry Pi gateway if you can find one.
https://preview.redd.it/pwq8b79y9b2h1.jpg?width=1771&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3feb03569d091aac3b42f2b029e220867b092d0d
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Bought a Nebra Rock Pi Indoor Hotspot from eBay for cheap and spent a few weeks getting it working as a private LoRaWAN gateway running ChirpStack v4. It's now receiving real sensor data — currently tracking a Browan TBOL100 GPS locator.
The hardware is a Rock Pi 4B+ with a Nebra Indoor LoRa HAT running Armbian. Getting it working was harder than it should have been — the SPI overlay system is broken on current Armbian builds, and the older concentrator module has a hardware quirk on its reset line that isn't documented anywhere.
I've published a one-script installer and full writeup so nobody else has to spend weeks on this:
https://github.com/mowaxuk/chirpstack-nebra-rockpi
The script handles both the older GL5712-UX module (SX1301) and the newer RAK2287 (SX1302), auto-detects which one you have, sets up the full ChirpStack stack (PostgreSQL, Redis, Mosquitto, concentrator, mqtt-forwarder), and sorts out all the hardware-specific GPIO and SPI fixes.
Cost of the whole setup was basically the price of a second-hand Nebra unit off eBay. Good alternative to a Raspberry Pi gateway if you can find one.
https://preview.redd.it/pwq8b79y9b2h1.jpg?width=1771&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3feb03569d091aac3b42f2b029e220867b092d0d
#home
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