How to get started with LoRaWan 

LoRa is incredible. If you use the wider bandwidth and longer spread factor settings, you can literally tx/rx data at miles with less than a watt of output on 440-900 mhz. I'm building a license free LoRa repeater based on the meshtastic firmware set, and one of the repeater devices can run on a single solar panel/5v usb battery bank for years without service. So basically, if you can hike it, you can have a repeater thousands of feet up (in my case) without the need for any real infrastructure. The handheld devices pair to a modern phone via Bluetooth, and run on 18650 batteries, meaning you can text someone where I live, with no grid, and no infrastructure within about a 30-40 mile radius without a ham license, and without any major investment or technical knowhow. If that repeater is near an internet connection, meshtastic can be ported through the internet via mqtt gateways, and you could truly create a nation wide network with other folks in other states if you felt the urge. In the US, this all falls under the ISM band, which is somewhere around 905-920 mhz. This makes high gain and directional antennas a breeze.

Seems interesting for a family or a smaller town. As a loner I think about RC ideas with it.

Love your videos. Could you by chance do a review on the new NooElec Ham it Down Converter when you are able? There aren't many out on it yet but I enjoy your thorough reviews of products.

Hello Can you talk about t2fd antenna? And what is the best antenna for short waves? Thanks 🙏🌹

LoRa is a pretty versatile system, although it's low bandwidth things like text messaging systems can be used on it. A lot of the "conspiracy" style RU-vid channels are talking about how the online safety bill now requires a backdoor into encrypted chat apps and how this is "the end of private communication". No it isn't, at least not for the technically minded.

Pretty cool.

Hi, thanks for the explanation. Is it possible to send the data to my server with a wep api in php, in order to register the data in my DB?

We are Hams mostly so lora minus the app or having to register with China would be a plus.

How can I connect the kit to the network The things networks, for example, you can now connect the gateway

Quick question if I want to use a Cisco Switch/Router before it gets back to my server I assume this is not an issue?

How can I add the endpoint to the things network, I don't know how to get APPKEY

Thanks for the video, how to find the source code of this project (xiao esp32)?

In America it’s licensed by rule, but we are talking semantics but I’ll digress.

Can it be used if you don't have internet

After the crap i had to go through with the x86 odyssey. Im done with seeed besides i love my data to be local not on some cloud.

Lorawan seems incredibly limited. All your local sensors feed to your own lorawan base station then through your modem to your ISP to a paid server to another ISP to your phone/laptop.

Honestly i don't see why i would need this plus it's a very big privacy risk really.

I really didn't see point of this expensive LoRa wan stuffs. You can do literally same thing with two TTGO devices. And number of usable sensors grows bigger because connecting directly to pins. No talking about you can't be sure where your data are sent with this preconfigured boxes

I would avoid this product, for the sole reason that they used RP-SMA connectors instead of "regular" SMA, which is widely considered a dick move.