TL;DR: I want to use LoRa with Particle devices to send data to and from Particle’s Cloud and other servers instead of the WiFi. Currently I have a Particle Photon and I want to completely shift to using LoRa instead of the WiFi. I want the Photon to turn on, connect to Particle’s Cloud service, au…

Here are a few links I have found: [image] What's your judgement on LoraWAN for non cellular IoT networks General Living in Amsterdam, Netherlands and having backed & eagerly awaiting the Electron which ultimately relies on large telco’s, I came across LoraWan as an alter…

[image] cwingrav: I want to use LoRa with Particle devices to send data to and from Particle's Cloud and other servers instead of the WiFi Why? What's wrong with having one device connected to the cloud via Wi-Fi that has a RFM95W receiver that gets the data from other devices with the transm…

Internet connectivity isn’t the issue. It’s connecting to Particle’s servers. I can write a library to replace Wifi or Cellular class functions, but Particle.connect() uses Wifi or Cellular and I need a way around this.

I appreciate the link. I found it before and was reading through it. Unfortunately, my Photon-run device won’t be near a wifi network to connect to, only the base Photon would be and I’m using Photons in the far off devices. I’d like to use Particle devices for their many features. If I can’t connec…

Why not just use Electrons and have almost unlimited range?

Cellular uses a lot of battery, even if turning on for short periods of time. I’m looking at really long time periods here and small devices so I can’t just pack in more LiPo batteries. You’re going down my own though processes. I appreciate you putting your grey matter to use on my problem!

I have a 3w solar panel attached to my Electron and publishing data every 2 mins and it’s able to stay charged and online almost every day using the included 2000mAh battery. I put it to sleep between the 2 min publishes.

Ha! Yeah, thought of that too. Had to abandon solar for ruggedization and dark environment issues.

Out of curiosity, what is the required range for your project? We have looked into LoRa as a Particle Compound, or even thought of using it as a bridge connection for gateways. The technology is pretty cool, something we are still very interested in, but we usually fall back to the point that it is…

Particle with only LoRa Networking

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Here is code that I got working for Photon + Adafruit RFM95 Radio + Microcontroller to communicate with each other. So you can have the Photon connected to the cloud and then still have access to your RFM95 LoRa radio communication also to process as you wish.

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