This is the second post about my hobby weather station build, this time describing the LoRaWAN elements. I opted to install a public The Things Network (TTN) gateway outside on my shed so that other users around me can also use this gateway to communicate with TTN. While I could have deployed the whole LoRaWAN stack locally (gateway, network server, join server, application server, etc on a platform such as a Multitech Conduit or with Chirpstack), I thought this would be a good opportunity to give operating a public TTN gateway a spin.

This is the first of many posts describing my hobby weather station build. The goal in building this project, apart from having a nifty weather dashboard with data fresh from my back yard, was to gain more knowledge about LoRaWAN, The Things Network, Mikrotik’s LoraWAN hardware, Heltec CubeCell dev boards, environmental sensors, InfluxDB, Node-RED, Grafana, and lots more. The station needs to be solar powered, maintenance-free, reliable, and operate in our Canadian prairie weather between -35℃ and 35℃ without missing a beat.