Tektelic

Kona gateways

These instructions appy to the Linux based Tektelic Kona gateways.

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SSH into the gateway

The first step is to login into the gateway using ssh:

ssh root@GATEWAY-IP-ADDRESS

The default password is the serial-number of the gateway which is printed on the back of the gateway (the 9 characters above the 12V = 1A line).

Packet-forwarder configuration

You must configure the packet-forwarder on the gateway to forward its data to 127.0.0.1 at port 1700. The file /etc/default/config.json must contain the following lines:

    ...
    "gateway_conf" {
        ...
        "server_address": "127.0.0.1",
	    "serv_port_up": 1700,
	    "serv_port_down": 1700,
	    ...
    }
	...

After updating the configuration file, make sure to restart the packet-forwarder:

/etc/init.d/pkt_fwd restart

Install ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder

Download IPK

Use the following commands to download the latest version of the chirpstack-mqtt-forwarder package:

cd /tmp
wget https://artifacts.chirpstack.io/downloads/chirpstack-mqtt-forwarder/vendor/tektelic/kona/chirpstack-mqtt-forwarder_4.3.1-r1_kona.ipk

Install IPK

Use the opkg package-manager to install the downloaded package. Example:

sudo opkg install chirpstack-mqtt-forwarder_4.3.1-r1_kona.ipk

To connect the ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder to your MQTT broker, you must update the ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder configuration file. This file is located at: /etc/chirpstack-mqtt-forwarder/chirpstack-mqtt-forwarder.toml.

(Re)start and stop commands

Use the following commands to (re)start and stop the ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder service:

# Status
sudo monit summary

# start
monit start chirpstack-mqtt-forwarder

# stop
monit stop chirpstack-mqtt-forwarder

# restart
monit restart chirpstack-mqtt-forwarder

Log output

To view the ChirpStack MQTT Forwarder log output, use the following command:

tail -f -n 100 /var/log/messages |grep chirpstack-mqtt-forwarder