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)
• TTGO LoRa32 V1 (433MHz SX1278)
• TTGO LoRa32 V2 (433MHz SX1278)
• TTGO T-Beam V0.7 (433MHz SX1278)
• TTGO T-Beam V1 (433MHz SX1278)
• Tracker D from OE1ACM and OE1CGC
• many more...

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

• LoRa32 V1
• LoRa32 V1
• LoRa32 V2
• T-Beam V1.0

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! To find the 'Upload File System image' click the PlatformIO symbol (the little alien) on the left side, choos your configuration and search for 'Upload File System image'.

LoRa APRS iGates on aprs.fi

Feel free to add a link to your iGate here:

• OE5BPA-10

Future plans

• add FTP server support to upload configuration
• add web server for configuration and other things
• add statistics for received packages
• show received packages on a map
• add better library to support multiple OLEDs
• etc.

LoRa Tracker

Look at my other project: a LoRa Tracker