<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body class=""><div>On Wed, 2018-05-30 at 00:28 +0100, Paul Harwood wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Hi</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With huge thanks to Gerrit and Matthew (Gall), we borrowed a few connectors, diagnosed a badly fitted RF module and now we have the have the humble beginnings of an Things network in Swansea.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">this is the model:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://shop.thethingsnetwork.com/index.php/product/the-things-gateway/" class="">https://shop.thethingsnetwork.com/index.php/product/the-things-gateway/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The window in the picture below looks out over Port Talbot, it's facing the Swansea University Bay Campus - no idea of range, but feel free to use it. I’m going to get some bits from the marketplace (maybe an air quality sensor) to test out.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/u/walletsystems" class="">https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/u/walletsystems</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">there is a map on there of the gateways locally under the gateways tab. I am trying to set up a community under the <a href="http://hackthecity.io" class="">http://hackthecity.io</a> project.</div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Congrats on being the first to get something going in Swansea,</div><div>there had been musings on the subject for quite a while but nothing came of it.</div><div><br></div><div>No sign of your gateway on ttnmapper.org yet, would be nice to see how far away it can be heard. if you have a battery powered device that can talk to it, send someone out with it and the mobile phone app and get some map points added :)</div><div><br></div><div>I'm still waiting on delivery of some LoRa radios for the 868MHz band, once i've got them up and running I will run a workshop on how to build simple lorawan enabled devices for anyone thats interested, should hopefully be a suitable followup to the wifi-IoT one i ran last month.</div></body></html>