Lora driver

[moxx]

Just tried out the LoRa backplane with this driver: https://codeberg.org/JF002/pinedio-lora-driver

To get it working, I had to change /dev/i2c-2 to /dev/i2c-3 in apps/pinephone-communicator/main.cpp

The pinephone-communicator connected to the LoRa module successfully and I could send messages. Unfortunately, I couldn't test receiving, as I don't have a second device.

[ragele]

Just tried out the LoRa backplane with this driver: https://codeberg.org/JF002/pinedio-lora-driver

To get it working, I had to change /dev/i2c-2 to /dev/i2c-3 in apps/pinephone-communicator/main.cpp

The pinephone-communicator connected to the LoRa module successfully and I could send messages. Unfortunately, I couldn't test receiving, as I don't have a second device.

could you share what system/os you used and how you compiled the driver and communicator app? i could not get cmake to get this old driver and app working.

[biketool]

I wish there were more people working with pinephone LoRa, one of the goals of the post Nokia N900 community(Neo900 project) was radio silence(the switches) mode as well as a way to receive when radio silent(which was a POCSAG pager module for the add-on hacker interface) this goes beyond a paging module and gives us long range data communications.  Users rolling out their own home LoRa points and some good encryption and maybe a TOR like obfuscation would give a great off-network messaging utility for emergencies of all kinds. 
LoRa is in interesting tech which until a few months ago was also used as a data encoding from several TV satellites to roll daily news and free media over Ka band LNBs downconverting to a 900mhz LoRa receiver.

mobian trixie....
git submodule update --init
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

[ragele]

I wish there were more people working with pinephone LoRa, one of the goals of the post Nokia N900 community(Neo900 project) was radio silence(the switches) mode as well as a way to receive when radio silent(which was a POCSAG pager module for the add-on hacker interface) this goes beyond a paging module and gives us long range data communications.  Users rolling out their own home LoRa points and some good encryption and maybe a TOR like obfuscation would give a great off-network messaging utility for emergencies of all kinds. 
LoRa is in interesting tech which until a few months ago was also used as a data encoding from several TV satellites to roll daily news and free media over Ka band LNBs downconverting to a 900mhz LoRa receiver.

mobian trixie....
git submodule update --init 
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

im with you on the hope more devs would be interested in pinedio and loRa in general... so many use cases and potential (several outside of just messaging functions)
Im a little surprised how even though both ppx lora and usb lora hardware exist there seems to be a lack of interest within the community

[biketool]

I wish there were more people working with pinephone LoRa, one of the goals of the post Nokia N900 community(Neo900 project) was radio silence(the switches) mode as well as a way to receive when radio silent(which was a POCSAG pager module for the add-on hacker interface) this goes beyond a paging module and gives us long range data communications.  Users rolling out their own home LoRa points and some good encryption and maybe a TOR like obfuscation would give a great off-network messaging utility for emergencies of all kinds. 
LoRa is in interesting tech which until a few months ago was also used as a data encoding from several TV satellites to roll daily news and free media over Ka band LNBs downconverting to a 900mhz LoRa receiver.

mobian trixie....
git submodule update --init 
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

im with you on the hope more devs would be interested in pinedio and loRa in general... so many use cases and potential (several outside of just messaging functions)
Im a little surprised how even though both ppx lora and usb lora hardware exist there seems to be a lack of interest within the community

We need off telephone-network terrestrial communications Lora does this, and if we can leverage that to do relay race baton-passes of data packages like the Briar network does via bluetooth offline it would be a major step forward for personal mobile devices, as long as we had enough users and ntework access point/bridges. 

I also believe we need a satellite based private option for at least slow data and priority/emergency messaging. Apple uses Globalstar network(receive only) we could have easily beat them if we had gotten our own Globalstar(https://www.globalstar.com/en-us/products/iot/stx3) phone cover off the ground during COVID-19 timeframe but that effort sputtered out. I had never come up with a cheap enough reasonable receive option though as most affordable services require a Ka band bare TV LNB minimum, even a S-bad square spiral polarity antenna is paperback book sized and would need to be something carried in a bag ie:Inmarsat; and now with https://othernet.is/ having ended their experimental service we no longer have a ready partner for even that. The Globalstar kit footprint is by subscription and limited by their ground station footprints, so unless someone wants to hack drive motors onto a 2-5m dish and figure out a pirate reception and routing service from the satellite's raw transponder downlink...