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Re:Show HN: FarmNet, an open-source LoRA agricultural sensin... by StavrosK on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:05PM (#18888449)
Does anyone know some cheap LoRa radios I can buy? I'd like to play with it, but so far I only know about the LoPy (expensive but easy to program) and some no-name radios for which sample code is very hard to come by.
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Re:Show HN: FarmNet, an open-source LoRA agricultural sensin... by tehf0x on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:14PM (#18888806)
At the end of the readme I point out the boards I use, namely the adafruit Lora feather which was the best bang for buck Arduino compatible board, and the Lora/GPS header for raspi which I would not necessarily recommend anymore, but that I can say works with this code.
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Re:Show HN: FarmNet, an open-source LoRA agricultural sensin... by StavrosK on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:36PM (#18888908)
Oh I missed that, thanks. My local Hackerspace made some boards that have that LoRa radio and an ESP8266 on them, I might grab some of those as I'm not in the US and Adafruit won't ship here cheaply, thank you.
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Re:Show HN: FarmNet, an open-source LoRA agricultural sensin... by tehf0x on Saturday January 12, 2019 @04:31AM (#18890456)
Yeah, that's probably a good bet. I'm in Europe and there are actually a decent number of European suppliers (or try Mouser, they seems to ship internationally for free, I have no idea how it works out for them but I got mine there).
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Re:Show HN: FarmNet, an open-source LoRA agricultural sensin... by frazar0 on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:46PM (#18888665)
If you're looking for something Arduino-compatible, you should consider the RFM9x family of boards, based on the SX1276 LoRa chips.

Breakout board from Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3072

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Re:Show HN: FarmNet, an open-source LoRA agricultural sensin... by StavrosK on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:53PM (#18888702)
Ahh, those are the boards I couldn't find sample code for, thanks! Adafruit is a godsend.
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