{"id":88,"date":"2018-12-28T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T05:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sighmon.com\/says\/?p=88"},"modified":"2019-01-04T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T08:39:00","slug":"connecting-to-the-things-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighmon.com\/says\/connecting-to-the-things-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting to The Things Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Out of the box The Things Uno has all the code on it to get started. All I needed to do was plug it into my laptop and open a serial monitor in the Arduino IDE at 9600 baud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Things Uno – out of the box it Just Works™️<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Green lights flashed, and its status printed to the console. Happy days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-- STATUS\nEUI: <eui>\nBattery: 3253\nAppEUI: 0000000000000000\nDevEUI: <devEui>\nData Rate: 3\nRX Delay 1: 1000\nRX Delay 2: 2000<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
I followed the Uno Quick Start<\/a> guide (which is really great), updated my Arduino IDE, added TheThingsNetwork library, setup my Application, added my device to the application, copied the appEui & appKey to my example sketch and uploaded it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everything looked happy, but then 😔 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
-- STATUS\nEUI: <eui>\nBattery: 3253\nAppEUI: 0000000000000000\nDevEUI: <devEui>\nData Rate: 3\nRX Delay 1: 1000\nRX Delay 2: 2000\n-- JOIN\nModel: RN2903\nVersion: 0.9.5\nSending: mac set deveui <devEui>\nSending: mac set adr off\nSending: mac set deveui <devEui>\nSending: mac set appeui <appID>\nSending: mac set appkey <secret>\nSending: mac save \n<snip>\nSending: mac set pwridx 5\nSending: mac set retx 7\nSending: mac set dr 3\nSending: mac join otaa \nJoin not accepted: denied\nCheck your coverage, keys and backend status.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Join not accepted: denied. Check your coverage, keys and backend status.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Double checking the sample code and keys didn’t find any bugs, so it was time to look at The Things Network Mapper<\/a> to see if I was actually in range here at Port Willunga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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December 2018, Port Willunga is out of range.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Bummer. ~22.8km away from the nearest gateway, and the theoretical range of LoRaWAN is ~15km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I’ll take a break from connecting to the network and get back to getting The Things Uno<\/a> talking to the Atlas Scientific Water Conductivity<\/a> sensor. Then when that’s all sorted, I’ll take a little drive down the coast and connect that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I really love the setup process of The Things Network – straight forward guide, and sample code that all works perfectly. 😊 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Update<\/em>: Once I reached Adelaide CBD I plugged in The Things Uno again in the hope it would connect to the many close gateways… but unfortunately I had the same problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A quick chat in the #Adelaide channel on thethingsnetwork.slack.com<\/a> and Andrew noticed that my Uno’s LoRaWAN firmware on the Microchip RN2903  is running old firmware (Version 0.9.5), and apparently it needs to be running Version 1.0.3 to connect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Follow along as I grapple with upgrading the firmware<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Out of the box The Things Uno has all the code on it to get started. All I needed to do was plug it into my laptop and open a serial monitor in the Arduino IDE at 9600 baud. Green lights flashed, and its status printed to the console. Happy days. I followed the Uno … <\/p>\n
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