Configuration
Beyond the default configuration described on Creating a device, then we have special fields for Private LoRaWAN which is quite similar to Public LoRaWAN.
Before stating it's important to know how OTAA(Over-the-Air Activation) and ABP(Activation By Personalization) (3) activation works to create your device, OTAA and ABP require different fields, learn more about LoRa activation here
For OTAA devices it's required to fill just Application key
For ABP devices it's required to fill: Device Address, Application session key and Network session key
So make sure you know the activation type of your device and have all that hexadecimal keys in hands to continue.
- Band is also known as Region or Regional parameters, it's about the frequency that the device uses. You can find out more details on Lora Alliance - Regional parameters
- It's also important to know what mac version your device is on, in general, all 1.0x is compatible between them, but your device may not work property if you create using version 1.0.3 and your device is 1.1.0 or higher
- Here is where you select the activation, lookup how the fields change as you change the activation
- This is how your device deal with the downlink, more details about class A and class C.
- This is a security feature, help to identify messages which not belongs to your real device, LoRa has many security layers but that one is one that you can disable but should keep it enabled, may bother you if you are debugging or testing your device.
- Enable advanced configuration, just change it if you know what you are doing.
- Saves the device.