This section contains instructions for connecting to The Things Stack using LoRa Basics™ Station.
Enable the Basic Station
Go to the LoRa > Forwarder page.
On the top right, click the Edit button to choose a forwarder.
In the list, select LoRa Basic Station and press apply.
Configure the LNS
Scroll down to the Configuration section and enable the LoRaWAN Network Server option.
Configure the Address with the Server Address of your deployment, and Port with LNS port 8887.
Enable the Secured TLS connection and select the Use local root certificates option. If you need to use a certificate specific to your infrastructure (for on-premise installations), use the Use certificate file option instead and upload the certificate.
Enable the Client authentication, select Use token, and set the previously saved API key in the Authentication token field. This key was shown to you as you created it when registering the gateway. If you did not copy the key, you can delete it and create a new one.
Press the SAVE button. In the Control pane above, press START and check the logs in the dedicated pane.
You should see a bunch of messages, one of which indicates success :
[TCE:INFO] Infos: fcc2:3dff:feab:cdef muxs-::0 wss://wifx.eu1.cloud.thethings.industries:8887/traffic/eui-FCC23DFFFEABCDEF
If the connection fails, you will get this kind of message:
[AIO:ERRO] [-1] WS connect failed: NET - Failed to get an IP address for the given hostname
[TCE:ERRO] TC connect failed - URI: wss://wrong-tenant.eu1.cloud.thethings.industries:8887
Please check the configuration and the LoRa Network Server status. After a configuration change, always restart the Basic Station with the Restart button to make it effective.
If the Basic Station crashes for any reason, it will be automatically restarted if the Auto-start option is enabled.
CUPS
Go to the Configuration section and enable Configuration and Update Server.
To connect the gateway via CUPS protocol, follow the instructions for Connecting CUPS.
Press the SAVE button. In the Control pane above, press START and check the logs in the dedicated pane.