Receive Basic
Next step was proving I could receive a message sent by an Arduino device running the LoRaSimpleNode example from the SandeepMistry Arduino LoRa library. For some variety I’m using a Dragino Raspberry Pi HAT featuring GPS and LoRa® technology on my Raspberry PI.
The Dragino pHat has the same pin configuration as the M2M 1 Channel LoRaWAN Gateway Shield for Raspberry Pi so there weren’t any code changes.
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// M2M device has reset pin uses non standard chip select
SX127XDevice sX127XDevice = new SX127XDevice(chipSelectLine: 1, chipSelectLogicalPinNumber: 25, resetPin: 17);
// Put device into LoRa + Sleep mode
sX127XDevice.WriteByte(0x01, 0b10000000); // RegOpMode
// Set the frequency to 915MHz
byte[] frequencyBytes = { 0xE4, 0xC0, 0x00 }; // RegFrMsb, RegFrMid, RegFrLsb
sX127XDevice.WriteBytes(0x06, frequencyBytes);
sX127XDevice.WriteByte(0x0F, 0x0); // RegFifoRxBaseAddress
sX127XDevice.WriteByte(0x01, 0b10000101); // RegOpMode set LoRa & RxContinuous
while (true)
{
// Wait until a packet is received, no timeouts in PoC
Console.WriteLine("Receive-Wait");
byte IrqFlags = sX127XDevice.ReadByte(0x12); // RegIrqFlags
while ((IrqFlags & 0b01000000) == 0) // wait until RxDone cleared
{
Thread.Sleep(100);
IrqFlags = sX127XDevice.ReadByte(0x12); // RegIrqFlags
Debug.Write(".");
}
Console.WriteLine("");
Console.WriteLine($"RegIrqFlags {Convert.ToString((byte)IrqFlags, 2).PadLeft(8, '0')}");
Console.WriteLine("Receive-Message");
byte currentFifoAddress = sX127XDevice.ReadByte(0x10); // RegFifiRxCurrent
sX127XDevice.WriteByte(0x0d, currentFifoAddress); // RegFifoAddrPtr
byte numberOfBytes = sX127XDevice.ReadByte(0x13); // RegRxNbBytes
// Read the message from the FIFO
byte[] messageBytes = sX127XDevice.ReadBytes(0x00, numberOfBytes);
sX127XDevice.WriteByte(0x0d, 0);
sX127XDevice.WriteByte(0x12, 0b11111111); // RegIrqFlags clear all the bits
string messageText = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(messageBytes);
Console.WriteLine($"Received {messageBytes.Length} byte message {messageText}");
Console.WriteLine("Receive-Done");
}
}
}
There wasn’t much code to configure the SX127X to receive messages. The device has to be put into sleep mode (RegOpMode), the frequency set to 915MHz(RegFrMsb, RegFrMid, RegFrLsb) and receiver enabled(RxContinuous).
While running the applications polls (RegIrqFlags) until a message has arrived (RxDone). It then gets a pointer to the start of the message buffer (RegFifiRxCurrent, RegFifoAddrPtr), gets the message length, and then reads the message (RegPayloadLength, RegFifo) from the buffer. Finally the flags are reset ready for the next message(RegIrqFlags)
Loaded '/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/5.0.4/System.Memory.dll'. Skipped loading symbols. Module is optimized and the debugger option 'Just My Code' is enabled.
Sending 28 bytes message Hello LoRa from .NET Core! 1
RegIrqFlags 00001000
Transmit-Done
RegIrqFlags 01010000
Receive-Message
Received 31 byte message HeLoRa World! I'm a Node! 20000
Sending 28 bytes message Hello LoRa from .NET Core! 2
RegIrqFlags 00001000
Transmit-Done
RegIrqFlags 01010000
Receive-Message
Received 31 byte message HeLoRa World! I'm a Node! 30000
Sending 28 bytes message Hello LoRa from .NET Core! 3
RegIrqFlags 00001000
Transmit-Done
RegIrqFlags 01010000
Receive-Message
Received 31 byte message HeLoRa World! I'm a Node! 40000
Sending 28 bytes message Hello LoRa from .NET Core! 4
RegIrqFlags 00001000
Transmit-Done
RegIrqFlags 01010000
Receive-Message
Received 31 byte message HeLoRa World! I'm a Node! 50000
Sending 28 bytes message Hello LoRa from .NET Core! 5
RegIrqFlags 00001000
Transmit-Done
RegIrqFlags 01010000
Receive-Message
Received 31 byte message HeLoRa World! I'm a Node! 60000
Sending 28 bytes message Hello LoRa from .NET Core! 6
RegIrqFlags 00001000
Transmit-Done
RegIrqFlags 01010000
Receive-Message
Received 31 byte message HeLoRa World! I'm a Node! 70000
Sending 28 bytes message Hello LoRa from .NET Core! 7
RegIrqFlags 00001000
Transmit-Done
RegIrqFlags 01010000
Receive-Message
Received 31 byte message HeLoRa World! I'm a Node! 80000
Sending 28 bytes message Hello LoRa from .NET Core! 8
RegIrqFlags 00001000
Transmit-Done
Summary
In this iteration I sent a from my a Dragino LoRa Shield 915MHz on a Seeeduino V4.2 device to my .Net Core 5 dotnet/iot powered Raspberry PI.
