Build your own gateway
Outdated: this section documents The Things Network V2, which is no longer maintained. See the documentation for The Things Stack V3, or browse the V2 docs index.
Building your own gateway is a fun and easy way to discover the LoRa world!
Image: Raspberry Pi-based gateway built by TTN Zurich
You will need:
- A LoRa concentrator board, to receive LoRaWAN packets. The most common board used is the iMST iC880a board.
- An antenna, to amplify the signal.
- A computer, to process incoming and outcoming LoRaWAN packets, and to exchange them back and forth with the concentrator board. Many users use a BeagleBone, or a Raspberry Pi.
Wire them up together, and you can build your own gateway!
Our friends from the Zurich community put together a guide on how to build a gateway in a week-end with a Raspberry Pi and an iC880a concentrator board. In a matter of a few days, you should have a LoRaWAN gateway up and running on The Things Network!
Our lab pages contain a number of other tutorials for building gateways provided by our fantastic community.