Hermetry has its own LoRaWAN network server and join server. You connect your LoRaWAN gateways to it, add your sensors, and a codec turns their radio frames into readings. Gateways and sensors are ordinary devices: they appear in Devices, count toward your device limit, and use the same dashboards, alarms and flows as every other device.
The full documentation is in the LoRaWAN section. This page is a summary with links.
What is supported
| Item | Support |
|---|---|
| Region | EU868 only. Other regions are not available. |
| LoRaWAN versions | 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (not 1.1) |
| Activation | OTAA and ABP |
| Device classes | A and C (not B) |
| Gateways | Basics Station gateways with a token, and licensed routers over their own secure link. The UDP packet forwarder is not supported. |
| Decoding | 106 library codecs, your own table codecs, or none (raw payload to your flows) |
| Downlinks | Raw bytes (hex or base64) on FPort 1–223, confirmed or not |
See LoRaWAN for the full list, including what is in development.
Add a gateway
Devices > New device > LoRaWAN gateway: the gateway’s EUI and a name. Hermetry shows a token once and the three Basics Station files (tc.uri, tc.trust, tc.key) to put on the gateway. Each organisation has its own network server address, wss://<your address>.<network server host>.
- Your network server address
- Add a LoRaWAN gateway
- Connect a Basics Station gateway
- Licensed routers as LoRaWAN gateways
- Gateway status, health and the map: Devices > ⋯ > Gateway map
- Gateway credentials, disable and delete
Add sensors
Devices > New device > LoRaWAN device: DevEUI, JoinEUI and AppKey (OTAA) or DevAddr and session keys (ABP). A sensor added this way is placed on the built-in profile LoRaWAN EU868 Class A OTAA (1.0.3). To add many identical sensors at once to a profile of your choice, use pairing mode.
- LoRaWAN device profiles
- Add an OTAA device and Add an ABP device
- Pairing mode and Approving devices added by pairing
- How a device joins, step by step
- Device classes A and C
- The device’s LoRaWAN tab
- The frames log: Devices > ⋯ > LoRaWAN frames
Decode the payload
A device’s codec is its own choice, else its profile’s, else Automatic (by maker and port). If no codec claims a device, its payload arrives as hex under the key raw. Browse and copy codecs under Devices > ⋯ > LoRaWAN codecs.