LPWAN Server

Getting Started

In this guide, we'll start an instance of LPWAN Server, along with a Postgresql database. We'll also run an instance of ChirpStack. We'll add the instance of ChirpStack within the LPWAN Server web-client UI, which will cause the applications and devices to be pulled.

This guide involves running multiple services. We'll use Docker Compose to run the databases and services.

Setup

Docker, Docker Compose, and Node.js are required to run LPWAN Server according to this guide.

Refer to the Requirements page for instructions on how to install these tools.

Refer to the Download and Setup page for instructions on downloading and installing LPWAN Server.

Demo

The sequence of steps involved for starting and stopping the services are sequenced in a bash script at /bin/demo within the LPWAN Server repo. You can view these files to find out more about what commands and configurations are involved in running the demo.

  • /bin/demo
  • /development/databases/docker-compose.yml
  • /development/chirpstack/docker-compose.yml
  • /docker-compose.yml

Start Demo

The LPWAN Server is setup with a "demo" script to start the server and accompanying services. Running the demo is the easiest way to try out LPWAN Server.

# Start demo
./bin/demo

# Stop demo
./bin/demo stop

URLs

Use Demo

Login

Use these credentials to log in.

  • username - admin
  • password - password

Create a connection to the ChirpStack Network

  • Click the Networks link in the top navigation bar
  • Click on the CREATE button next to the LoRa Server entry
  • Fill in the form as shown below, and hit SUBMIT

If the network was succesfully created, this confirms that LPWAN Server and ChirpStack are communicating correctly.

View Application

If you navigate to the home page, you will see an application that was pulled from the ChirpStack network.

Requirements →