Raspberry Pi

ChirpStack Gateway OS

Rasberry Pi based gateways are supported by the ChirpStack Gateway OS images. This is the preferred and easiest option to get started. Please refer the ChirpStack Gateway OS documentation for installation instructions.

Raspberry Pi OS

ChirpStack Gateway Bridge

ChirpStack provides a package repository that is compatible with Raspberry Pi OS. In order to add this repository, execute the following command:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 1CE2AFD36DBCCA00

sudo echo "deb https://artifacts.chirpstack.io/packages/4.x/deb stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chirpstack.list
sudo apt update

Then in order to install the ChirpStack Gateway Bridge:

sudo apt install chirpstack-gateway-bridge

If the above step has been completed, update the ChirpStack Gateway Bridge configuration file. This file is located at /etc/chirpstack-gateway-bridge/chirpstack-gateway-bridge.toml. By default it is configured to use with the Semtech UDP Packet Forwarder. The configuration that you most likely want to update is related to the MQTT integration configuration.

To (re)start, stop and retrieve the status of the ChirpStack Gateway Bridge process, use the following commands:

sudo systemctl [start|stop|restart|status] chirpstack-gateway-bridge

To retrieve the ChirpStack Gateway Bridge logs:

sudo journalctl -u chirpstack-gateway-bridge -f -n 50

Packet Forwarder

Semtech UDP Packet Forwarder

The Semtech UDP Packet Forwarder must be configured so that it forwards its data to the ChirpStack Gateway Bridge that has been installed in the previous step. Where the configuration file of the Semtech UDP Packet Forwarder is located depends on how this Packet Forwarder was installed (which is outside the scope of this documentation). Typically this file is called local_conf.json and / or global_conf.json (in case both are present, values set in local_conf.json have priority over variables set in global_conf.json).

Find the configuration section called gateway_conf and update the server_address, serv_port_up and serv_port_down accordingly:

"gateway_conf": {
	...
	"server_address": "localhost",
	"serv_port_up": 1700,
	"serv_port_down": 1700,
	...
}