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How to configure a Multitech LoRa Gateway with Loriot ?

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To set up the Multitech LoRa gateway on the Loriot network, please follow this guide.

 

1. Reset the Gayeway to Factory Settings. Make sure that device is Connected to Electrical Power but disconnected from your Local Network. Then, press the reset button in front of the device during at least 40 seconds, then wait 10mins.

 

2. Connect your laptop directly to the gateway (using an Ethernet cable). After the reset done on the previous step, the gateway will always take the fix address 192.168.2.1 and it will provide an IP address to your computer. Connect to the web interface, opening a Browser and then going to the address 192.168.2.1 , then create a temporary user and password.

 

3. Connect to the web interface of the device (using the temporary user/password recently created) and restore the configuration file provided to you by support team, restart if needed. VERY IMPORTANT Before restoring the configuration, please do make sure that firmware is version 5.3.3.

 

3.1 If the Gateway firmware is not 5.3.3 then the firmware 5.3.3 must be applied.

 
We need to make sure that Gateway MTCDT-247A has the version 5.3.3

(With the other versions there was some issues.)
For this, go to this page:
 
http://www.multitech.net/developer/downloads/
 
There, download this file "MTCDT 5.3.3"
 

Conduit: mPower Models (MTCDT-X-2XXA or MTCDTIP-x-2xxA)

Firmware Files: (Changelog | See mPower software guide for upgrade instructions


You will get a zip file. You need to unzip, then using the Web Interface, apply that on your gateway. Once these steps are followed correctly, the firmware of the gateway will be 5.3.3, then you can restore the backup provided.

 

Note: After restoring the configuration the user and password will change, they will be provided by Support Team, You will need to use those to connect to the device. Additionally, after the restore of the configuration, the device will not have a fix address but it will receive one by DHCP.

 

4. After the restore of the configuration, no action is needed anymore on the web interface. Everything will happen by SSH. After the configuration is restored, you need to connect the device to your local network. It will receive an IP address automatically from your router.

 

5. To install Loriot application please find the IP address of the gateway (Gateway is connected to your Local Network through this one) and then connect by SSH (using User and Password provided by Support) to the device. 

First, kill any remaining packet forwarder processes

  1. Verify no Check the running LORIOT processes
    1. ps ax | grep loriot # this will list background running Loriot processes
    2. ps ax | grep pkt # this will list possible background running packet forwarder
      process
    3. kill any background running Loriot processes (if the process has the number 2035, then write the command sudo kill 2035, and likewise for all the ongoing processes)

Then, execute these 4 commands, one at the time (taken from Loriot Documentation):

 

Once connected on the gateway with an SSH console. Run the following commands :

  • cd $HOME
  • wget https://allthingstalk.loriot.io/home/gwsw/loriot-multitech-conduit-mlinux-mcard-1.5-SPI-0-latest.sh -O loriot-install.sh
  • chmod +x loriot-install.sh
  • ./loriot-install.sh -f -s allthingstalk.loriot.io

 

After executing these commands, your Gateway should become online. If it's not so, feel free to contact us on support@allthingstalk.com.

 

 

 

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