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Pygate

The Pygate is an 8-channel LoRaWAN gateway. Connect a WiPy, Gpy or LoPy4 board to the Pygate and flash the Pygate firmware. See the Pygate tutorial to get started.

Note: Make sure to update the firmware of the device to the pygate version in order to access the functions below.

Methods

machine.pygate_init(buff)

This function is used to initialize the Pygate

  • buff: the data contents of the gateway global config json file

machine.pygate_deinit()

This shuts down the concentrator.

machine.callback(trigger, handler=None, arg=None)

  • trigger: A trigger event(s) for invoking the callback function handler, the triggers/events are:

    machine.PYGATE_START_EVT

    machine.PYGATE_STOP_EVT

    machine.MP_QSTR_PYGATE_ERROR_EVT

  • handler: The callback function to be called. When not passed to function, any pre-registered callback will be disabled/removed.

  • arg: Optional argument to be passed to the callback function.

machine.events()

Get the Pygate events

machine.pygate_reset()

Hard-reset (power cycle) the Pygate and development module inserted.

To use this functionality, you will need to update the Pygate firmware. Go to update firmware to do so.