The Microchip LoRa Mote is a battery powered demonstration/develop board populated with a 868 or 915 Mhz LoRa module.
It has a micro USB connector for ASCII command communication between the pc and the LoRa module or you can use a PIC programmer to program the on board PIC18LF45K50 MCU. There are 2 versions of this Mote, one with Oled and one with LCD display (This tutorial works for the LCD version)
With this Mote you can send light and temperature to a LoRaWan network like The Things Network (TTN).
Microchip LoRa Mote, Lcd version
In this tutorial I will show you how to visualize the received data from TTN in Cayenne.
I assume that the Mote is working correct; that means, there is a TTN account, you made an Application and the device is correctly registered so, the data is already visible in the TTN Console.
Of course you already have a Cayenne user account.
⢠Open the Cayenne dashboard and click âAdd newâ > Device/Widget
⢠Click LoRa (Beta) > The Things Network
⢠Scroll down and click the arrow button
⢠Enter the Device name and the DevEUI (TTN Console > Applications > > manage devices > > Device overview > Device EUI)
⢠Click the âAdd deviceâ button
⢠Select and copy your Process ID from the browser address andâŚ
⢠Open the TTN Console and click: (TTN Console > Applications > Integrations + add integration
⢠Click Cayenne
⢠Copy your Cayenne Process ID and click: âAcces Keyâ > âDefault Keyâ > â Add Integrationâ
⢠Your Integration Overview should show âStatus Runningâ
This part is ready and all you have to do now is:
⢠Go back to the Cayenne Dashboard
⢠Take the Microchip LoRa Mote and send some data
⢠See the magic happens in Cayenne
⢠No coding or decoding, it all happens in the background. When data comes available, Temperature and Luminosity widgets are automatically created.
Thanks for reading, and by the way, I made a simple 3D printed enclosure for the Microchip LoRa Mote:
Regards,
IoT_Marco