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Success connecting to Arduino Cloud / TTN with MKR WAN 13x0: share your experience (solved)

Jan Cumps

update: solved - it was the coverage.

If you have been successful with sending data to The Things Network / Arduino Cloud, using an Arduino MKR WAN 1300 or 1310, please share your experience.

 and I have tried this. The configuration worked for both of us (Arduino Cloud, TTN, customised sketch upload), but we don't get an active sub-1 GHz connection.

If you were able to exchange data, please share where you tried this, what Arduino/antenna combination, and where you placed your gizmo. And if you want, the sketch you uploaded (remove the Arduino-generated ID from the header comments).

Thank you

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  • In my case, the coverage is pretty weak. 

    But I'm still trying to connect..to the 2 in my vicinity by driving by until i get a signal. I'd be interested in finding out the success of others

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    Hope everyone is doing good out there.

    Regards.

    Steve K

  • in reply to skruglewicz

    Just guessing from the map, the distance to the closest gateway is ~ 7 or 8 miles?  That's a stretch for LoRa, but possible.  If there is clear line-of-site it could work.  You wouldn't happen to be at the top of a hill?

  • in reply to mp2100

    Hello , CC:  

    Thanks for the feedback,

    it might be 7-8 miles as the crow flies, but I have hills all around me. 

    I actually have NOT successfully connected to the TTN yet. I tried to but never was successful. I'm just finishing up on a five blog series for an  E14 Design Challenge. The five Blog Series Case Enclosure Reliability Monitor , supplied 2 LoRaWAN Arduino MKR WAN 1300..'s. When I followed the same tutorial described by member Jan Cumps in his comment,  at the time, I suspected, it was a distance issue and I abandoned the connection to the TTN and came up with a new design involving the 2  MKRWAN 1300 as a Sender and Receiver. The New Design was implemented and is working great. I plan to revisit the TTN tutorial soon, maybe this week. 

    E14 Member ,whom initiated this blog, has excellent coverage and followed the same tutorial as I did for my 1st design attempt. He, as far as I can see,  has NOT successfully connected  to the TTN , as he mentioned above " we don't get an active sub-1 GHz connection."

    So I'm proposing to the Community.  Some questions still remaining are:

    • why can't Jan get an active sub-1 GHZ connection? 
    • He has more coverage than me and he still cannot connect, using the tutorial.?
    • Is there something missing in the tutorial part with TTN configuration?
    • Is he out of range of the 10 gateways on the TTN map?
    • Does any member know of an Arduino sketch that successfully connects to a gateway on the TTN map/
      • Like a TTN gateway range finder

    Kind Regards,

    Steve K

  • in reply to skruglewicz

    Does anyone  know about the TTN Mapper project at ttnmapper.org (ttnmapper.org/.../) It is another gateway mapper . my only question is that it has fewer gateways than the TTN map at https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/map

    The gateway next my home is not listed? I'm wondering how accurate this map is? it show fewer gateways around me. It does give more info on the gateways it list however, like Location Lan/Lat

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  • in reply to skruglewicz

    I located the closest gateway on that map, it's just a house block away.

    image

    According to that map, it's online right now.

    I've made a gizmo that lights up the LED if I have a connection:

    void loop() {
      ArduinoCloud.update();
      // Your code here 
      digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, ArduinoCloud.connected());
      health = health + 1;
      delay(10000);  
    }

    Here's my gizmo. As  indicated, I'll have to keep the antenna vertical.

    image

    There's no auto-retry. I need to push the reset button.
    Not a big fan walking through the capital with something like this, but anything for science :)

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  • in reply to skruglewicz

    I located the closest gateway on that map, it's just a house block away.

    image

    According to that map, it's online right now.

    I've made a gizmo that lights up the LED if I have a connection:

    void loop() {
      ArduinoCloud.update();
      // Your code here 
      digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, ArduinoCloud.connected());
      health = health + 1;
      delay(10000);  
    }

    Here's my gizmo. As  indicated, I'll have to keep the antenna vertical.

    image

    There's no auto-retry. I need to push the reset button.
    Not a big fan walking through the capital with something like this, but anything for science :)

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