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Quick Start Guide

LPWAN Evaluation Board
RAK4200 Breakout Board

Version 1.0 | April 2020

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Page 1: ...Quick Start Guide LPWAN Evaluation Board RAK4200 Breakout Board Version 1 0 April 2020 www RAKwireless com Visit our website for the latest copy of this manual...

Page 2: ...oduct Background 3 2 Prerequisites 4 2 1 Hardware tools 4 2 2 Software tools 4 3 Configuration 5 3 1 Interfacing with the RAK4200 Evaluation Board 5 3 2 Connecting to The Things Network TTN 8 3 2 1 Ad...

Page 3: ...power 19dBm in work mode The module complies with LoRaWAN 1 0 2 protocols It also supports Lora Point to Point communication The RF communication capabilities of the module make it suitable for a var...

Page 4: ...e included in the package others you need to provide yourself 2 1 Hardware tools RAK4200 LPWAN Evaluation Board provided including LoRa antenna Dupont lines 13x USB to UART converter CH340 for example...

Page 5: ...vice properly Figure 2 Powering up and interfacing with the board Go to your Device Manager by pressing Windows R and typing devmgmt msc or search in the Start Menu Look for Ports COM LPT and Find the...

Page 6: ...RAK4200 Breakout Module 6 Figure 3 COM port settings...

Page 7: ...Serial Port Tool Select the COM Port number the one you noted in the previous step and set the Baud Rate to 115200 Click OPEN and you should be connected to the board and be able to send commands Fig...

Page 8: ...Things Network here Log into your TTN account and go to the Console page Figure 5 TTN console main page 3 2 1 Adding an Application Once in the console you will notice that it is split in two large se...

Page 9: ...is is a short and concise human readable description of your application Application EUI this will be generated automatically by The Things Network for convenience and is a unique identifier of your a...

Page 10: ...ew page and Device registration 3 2 2 Registering a device Now we need to add our actual device RAK4200 Refer to Figure 8 again and press the register device button that is marked with the red rectang...

Page 11: ...he unique identifier for your device in the network You can change it later App Key this key will be used to secure the communication between the device and the network App EUI a unique identifier of...

Page 12: ...A mode OTAA stands for Over The Air Activation We will not delve into details however the most important thing from practical perspective is that a device needs to have the 3 parameters Device EUI App...

Page 13: ...use an example that works withing the EU868 band in LoRa Class A device mode As our device is already powered and connected to our PC and we can configure it with the RAK Serial tool we need only exe...

Page 14: ...fig lora class 0 Set the device region to EU868 at set_config lora region EU868 Executing the set of commands above in order should result in a command output in the RAK Serial tool much like the one...

Page 15: ...ew page Figure 11 Replace the XXXX in the commands below with your particular set of symbols Set the Device EUI at set_config lora dev_eui XXXX Set the Application EUI at set_config lora app_eui XXXX...

Page 16: ...ng the set of commands above in order should result in a command output in the RAK Serial tool much like the one in Figure 13 the values there are just an example Figure 13 Device Setup 2 Reboot the d...

Page 17: ...a successful joining of the network The device will report the join mode OTAA in this case and the parameters Device EUI Application EUI and App Key it is using for the join procedure Finally the succ...

Page 18: ...s Send an Uplink LoRa frame at send lora 2 0123456789 Additionally you should also see this in the TTN console provided you have access to a Gateway The join request and join accept frames marked with...

Page 19: ...v About RAKwireless RAKwireless is a pioneer in providing innovative and diverse Cellular and LoRaWAN connectivity solutions for both Edge and Gateway IoT devices We believe that through easy to use a...

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