I went up to around Johnstown PA and my friend went to state college up there somewhere within a radius but i dont know exactly the name of the town
The M2 LoRa gateway is basicly a dumb device… it just recieves LoRa packets and forwards to a Packet server like Seeed SenseCAP Dashboard or another supported server (Thats the hard part) or i think if you know what you are doing you can host your own server. All of that is on another device. It would be nice if it could also host a local server on the device because i think it is basicly a Raspberry Pi Compute module with a LoRa 10 channel concentrator modem… or something like that bla bla…
Apparently even though LoRa started as a single channel device on a arduino Uno, now supposidy you can qulify to be a LoRa gateway unless you can handle 10 channels…
The LoRa Gateway is just a pass thru… it recieves the messages and passes them to the internet
thru your local wifi… and maybe a ethernet wired connection. I think you can get one that relays directly to the cellular network as well. I think it will relay any message and not just “Your Messages” It only passes to one server. Also you have to make sure it will function in your RF region, but lucky most can be switched with software, but if your country uses a crazy frequency you may need a different chip to get that frequency and that is a hardware issue
This is basicly the extent of the cool information… everything else is basic router like stuff… connecting to your wireless router via WiFi… controlling whether or not the lights blink all the time or not, forcing a remote reboot… stuff like that… nothing at all impressive
If you notice the LoRa packages went down… thats because i had a Tracker 1110 Wio Tracker 1110 Dev Board- the Tracker Prototype for Indoor and Outdoor Positioning - Seeed Studio
in my car so when i went out today i was out of range for that device
The M2 firmware is closed source for some reason I dont know exactly why… I think Seeed said it was propriotory due to the original client who commissioned the design… probably the Chineese CIA or something… I would think you could get the compiled binary if you crashed it or something… that is also why you cant SSH into the console remotely but can manage thru http: It is technicly not a Linux device or Open WRT… its propritory
People spend too much time trying to update firmware… also scammers will try to get you to update firmware from a fishing site.
All of this LoRa stuff is ripe with fishing scammers who are trying to get your Helium Crypto Wallet passcodes … they tell you you need to update your firmware before you can proceed and redirect you to a spoofing website that proptly asks you to input your 21 word Helium Wallet Pass Phrases which YOU SHOULD NEVED DO and is not even needed. I also started to fall for it, but since i dont have any Helium and did not intent to I did not fall for it, but if you do, they wipe your bank account and its too bad so sad…
It is typical of the support you would expect from Seeed Exelance
I drove around all of Hampton Roads today and did not recieve any pings from any other Meshtastic devices…