With the migration of The Things Network to the version 3 stack, I thought it was an opportune time to upgrade my Raspberry PI based gateway from the legacy Semtech packet forwarder to Basic Station. Basic Station LoRaWAN gateway maintainers should be using secured and encrypted connections to the LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS) rather than the old legacy packet forwarder using UDP packets. Semtech provide opensource software called LoRa Basics™ Station for this purpose: Basic Station exchanges data as JSON encoded objects over secure WebSockets.  The gateway identifies itself with a secret API key, ensuring it’s authorised. In addition to … Continue reading LoRaWAN: Installing Basic Station and connecting to The Things Network V3 Stack