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The idea of these hubs is to connect to an existing (guest) Wifi or to set up a seperate wifi, analog to ethernet and VLANs.
Since the data between the sensors and the hub is communicated over LORA network, we assume the impact of this device on the WiFi network will be max 250MB/hub/month

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(in case of 4G, a 4G gateway is needed. This creates a WiFi network, please make sure this is allowed by the customer)

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How to Activate the Hub

  • Press the reset button (small button at the back of the gateway next to the USB-C port) for 5 seconds until the LED blinks rapidly GREEN<->RED for a couple of times.
  • Hold the SETUP (button at the top of the gateway, next to the LED) for 10 seconds until the LED blinks rapidly in RED.
  • The gateway now exposes a WiFi AP whose SSID is MINIHUB-xxxxxx where xxxxxx is the last 6 digits of the gateway ID.
  • The password for this network is printed on the back panel of the device under WiFi PW.
  • After connecting to this network go to 192.168.4.1 using a web browser to access the WiFi config page:

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  • Select the WiFi network and enter the password if it’s a closed network.

  • Select the “Save and Reboot” option.

  • If your config is right, the gateway will blink GREEN for a few seconds while it connects to this network.

  • Then, it will blink GREEN<->RED for a few seconds while it connects to the CUPS endpoint and fetches the necessary information to connect to the LNS traffic endpoint.

  • If your configuration was successful, the LED will be solid GREEN which means that the gateway is connected to the LoRaWAN network and is ready to handle packets (Spacewell Cobundu SPOC is able to check this)

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Additional Information

Operating Modes

  1. Configuration Mode (CONF)

    1. In this mode, the device acts as a WiFi AP to which users can connect and configure a WiFi
      network(s) to which the gateway will connect to during normal operation. The device cannot
      route LoRaWAN packets in this mode.

  2. Gateway Mode (GW)

    1. In this mode, the device acts as a gateway to route traffic between the LoRaWAN Device
      and the Network. The WiFi AP for configuration is not available in this mode.

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LED States

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Button Actions

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  1. SETUP Button pressed for 10s:
    1. Switch to CONF mode if in GW mode.
  2. SETUP Button pressed for 5s:
    1. Reboot if in CONF mode, do nothing in GW mode
  3. RESET Button pressed for 5s:
    1. Factory reset (wipe out WiFi and LNS credentials, though CUPS credentials are retained).

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Troubleshooting

  1. Are you sure the correct ports were opened on the network?
  2. Check the LED lights
  3. Make sure there are not typos in the hub board ID (ask customer to take a picture of the sticker at the back of the device)
  4. Check if the hub is connected to the correct network (on the switch)
  5. Check if there is network connectivity on the patch in the switch (aka: connect the cable of the patch to your pc)
  6. Replace a non-working hub with one that is confirmed working
    • If the non-working one is connected to the patch of the working one and this works: there is an issue with the patch/switch
    • If the working one is connected to the patch of the non-working one and this works: there is an issue with the hub

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Hub provisioning

If your hub is not showing up on /wiki/spaces/KB/pages/492072, make sure to communicate both the device EUI and the "WiFi password" (authentication code; that is printed on the sticker on the back of the device) to the hardware manager.