LoRa APRS iGate

The LoRa APRS iGate will work with very cheep hardware which you can buy from amazon, ebay or aliexpress. Try it out and be part of the APRS network.

Supported boards

You can use one of the Lora32 boards:

• Heltec WiFi LoRa 32 V1 (433MHz SX1278)
• Heltec WiFi LoRa 32 V2 (433MHz SX1278) https://heltec.org/project/wifi-lora-32/
• TTGO LoRa32 V1 (433MHz SX1278)
• TTGO LoRa32 V2 (433MHz SX1278)
• TTGO T-Beam V0.7 (433MHz SX1278)
• TTGO T-Beam V1 (433MHz SX1278)
• many more...

Here are some amazon-de links for some example boards:

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This boards cost around 20 Euros, they are very cheap and perfect for an LoRa iGate. Keep in minde: you need a 433MHz version!

Compiling

How to compile

The best success is to use PlatformIO. Go to https://platformio.org/ and download the IDE. Just open the folder and you can compile the Firmware.

Dependencies

• LoRa by Sandeep Mistry
• APRS-IS-Lib by Peter Buchegger
• APRS-Decoder-Lib by Peter Buchegger
• LoRa-APRS-Lib by Peter Buchegger
• ArduinoJson by Benoit Blanchon
• AXP202X_Library by Lewis He
• Adafruit SSD1306 by Adafruit (with all dependecies)
• NTPClient by Fabrice Weinberg

But you don't need to download all this libs, PlatformIO will take care for you ;)

Configuration

Change your configuration in data/is-cfg.json and upload it via 'Upload File System image' in PlatformIO!

LoRa APRS iGates on aprs.fi

Feel free to add a link to your iGate here:

• OE5BPA-10

Future plans

The complete configuration should move to IotWebConf.

LoRa Tracker

Look at my other project: a LoRa Tracker