LoRa Manager

The LoRa Manager allows users to manage and customize LoRa Packet Forwarder settings and Radio Configurations.

Accessing the LoRa Manager UI

For security reasons, the LoRaWAN Manager running in a Veea Mesh in only accessible from Veea Control Center.Login to the Veea Control Center to access your Veea Mesh pages and you will see the Service link. Clicking on LoRa+Manager will redirect to the LoRa Manager page.

 

• To access the LoRaWAN application manager, from the left-hand-side menu, click on LoRaWAN. You will land on the following page:

• On this page, you will find a list of all the VeeaHubs that are connected in the mesh. Along with the Serial Number of the a VeeaHub, you will also find details like its Gateway ID, the Channel Plan that is attached to it and the VeeaHub’s current Status.
• Clicking on a VeeaHub in the table will lead you to the page below . Here, all the information related to the selected VeeaHub such as its Gateway ID, SW/HW version, Module Type etc. will be displayed. Some of the information on this page will not be editable, such as Gateway ID, HW/SW Versions, Module Type, Country, whereas the rest is editable.
  You can learn more about what information to add in the editable fields on this page by hovering your cursor on top of the question mark icons in front of them.
  
  • In the Radio Configurations dropdown, you can select the Radio Configuration you want for that device but please note that you can only select the configurations that are available in your region.
   

  A Radio Configuration is a frequency plan specific to a country or a region. LoRaWAN devices operate within a particular band of frequency channels in each country and depending on the country/region of operation of your VeeaHub.
  • You can also edit information such as Gateway Bridge IP Address, Gateway Bridge Downlink Port, Gateway Bridge Uplink Port, and Stats Interval. Once you have made all the changes, click on the Save button and the success message will be displayed.

  Working Radio Configurations

  • To start working with Radio Configurations, click on Radio Configurations in the left hand side menu. You will land on the page below:
  

• Here, all the Radio Configurations will be listed. The Radio Configurations that are not supported by the available VeeaHubs will be greyed out, as you can see in the above image. A couple of Radio Configurations will come built-in. In front of every Radio Configuration, you will find information like Details (Country/Freq), Type, and Status. Details column tells us two things: Region and Frequency range for the Radio Configuration. The Type column will tell us whether a template is built-in or user-defined.
• Clicking on a Radio Configuration will redirect you to the View Configuration page, as shown in the below image. On this page, you will be able to see all the information about the Radio Configuration. You will also find the Download button on this page which will download the JSON file for that Radio Configuration. You can use this JSON file as a blueprint to create a new Radio Configuration, which we will learn to do later in this document. Also, if it is a user-defined Radio Configuration, you will find a delete button on this page but it won’t be available for the built-in Radio Configurations. Furthermore, you will not be able to delete any user-defined configuration which is attached to a VeeaHub.

• If you want to create a new Radio Configuration, click on the New button on the Radio Configurations page, and you will land on the following page:

• On this page, you can give this new configuration a name and then upload a JSON file that will contain all the information for this configuration. You can use the JSON of an existing Radio Configuration as a blueprint for this new Configuration by uploading it on this screen. After uploading, the JSON content will be populated in the code area where you can make changes to it according to the new Radio Configuration.
• If you are satisfied with your new configuration, click on the Save button and you will land back on the Radio Configurations page. Now you can assign these Radio Configuration to the hubs.