My plans with LoRaWAN

Author:       -fab- 
License:      CC BY-SA 4.0
Published on: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:36:33 +0200
Last updated: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:36:33 +0200

My last post was a while ago. That's typical to me. I work on my projects and then I take a long timeout of my tech activities.

Now I'm planning a new project which has been brewing in my brain for some time. It was a thought of how to participate with the ROOPHLOCH event for the first time. I want to send my ROOPHLOCH post over LoRaWAN.

Sending messages with LoRaWAN

Lark made a post about his experiments with the Meshtastic Protocol which also uses LoRa.

=> Exploring Meshtastic

I didn't do much research on the Meshtastic Network, but my choice would be "The Things Network" where I read something about. There is only one node in the next big city of my location which is ~10km far away. And my location is not that ideal but I think I can get around 3-4 km.

=> The Things Network (https)

My plan is to set up a complete node and send my ROOPHLOCH post from as far away from the station as possible. But the rest of the time I want to provide LoRaWAN access to the neighborhood. The local setup on my balcony would be an 8-channel node.

Restrictions

But there seem to be some difficulties with LoRa/LoRaWAN in Germany. The bandwidth is between 350b/s and 11kb. That wouldn't be a problem for a short gemini post but unfortunately there seem to be further legal restrictions in Germany. As far as I understood you could only use 1% of the time sending messages. So that means I can only send one second every 100 seconds. That seems to be a BIG hurdle for my usecase.

But I'm not completely sure about that, so if you have any information about this situation please contact me and give advice. You can contact me with email fab@redterminal.org or with fedi @fab@pleroma.envs.net.

Any help with this would be highly appreciated.

All in all - Have fun!

-fab-

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