• Receiving (downlink) messages using Sigfox

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    I don't know anything about sigfox, but I know a fair bit about radios. If operating from other locations which are a similar distance from the peer sigfox device is successful, then there is a good chance that, all other things being equal, you have a local noise source that is decreasing the signal to noise ratio in your sigfox receiver below that at which the modem works. Options to mitigate this might include some combination of: Operating from a different location Using a directional antenna pointed at the peer node. This may increase received signal and reduce pickup of local noise. Identify and remove the noise source, or if very localised, move your device a bit further away. Operate on a different frequency or an entirely different frequency band. You could try using some sort of communications receiver or scanner to listen to the operating frequency, but these days using something like an RTL-SDR with suitable software defined radio software should allow you to see the state of the appropriate part of the radio spectrum and ascertain what kind of problem you may have. As a radio ham, with lots of radios, I find that they have a high tendency to interfere with each other, even when operating in separate bands, as they are usually harmonically related, thus transmissions around 145 MHZ interfered with stuff around 435 MHz, whilst stuff on 434MHz hit stuff in the 868MHz ISM band. Note that USB cables have a tendency to radiate strongly around the 430-440MHz band and may affect the 868MHz band quite strongly too, so you might have some luck in avoiding proximity to USB cables and perhaps also monitors or TV screens.
  • Unable to register for Sigfox Buy.

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  • LoPy4 locking on sending and receiving data

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    @Eric73, thank you very much. Everything is functioning properly now!
  • lopy sigfox know if message is sent

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    @raaden89 Simply you can't. Sigfox as very very low downlink ability ( network to your device as 4*8 bytes limits per day!) . You just can't design this functionnality as is, and you need to think to another way to work. exemple:wait in your device for a downlink coming from sigfox with a sequencial number index, send after that the gps pos with following index and so on. On the next download your device will receive a new index (or the same at the last time if no uplink as been successfull) and your device will restart to send the gps pos following the index recevied.
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  • SigFox with Sipy not working anymore

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    @eric73 Yes, the sequence was exactly my problem. Disengaging solved it :)
  • How to delete a device on sigfox backend ?

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    You can check out this company. They've got nice reviews and a great portfolio of resolved cases. I'm sure they'll be able to help.
  • Sigfox error numbers

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    @tttadam No, not compatible. The pigtails have either a male or female (tech speak) SMA plug. The one with the rod is the male one. There are adapters available, but better get another pigtail. P.S.: That happened to me too. I ended up in having all sorts of pigtails and adapters in my drawer.
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    Hello, in this link they answer quickly to all the doubts. Sigfox Ask Regards,
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    Will messages be stored temporarily, until a PyGo has contacted another node for a certain amout of time and then hop the stored message? Thinking of eg. communication net between busses or so.
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    @jcaron I think that this was @tttadam's conclusion.
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    @trojanc Well, i have a talk with a sigfox founder. First news about this topics is Sigfox France Network now sell device subscription by year for one device. Unfortunatly this will not help you in this case, sorry. It seem that kenya and south africa is not still available on buy.sigfox.com, as all technical event is off i dont know where i can see someone from sigfox in futur to ask us some news.
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    @matt3526 Thingsboard has nice documented tracking use-case: https://thingsboard.io/fleet-tracking/
  • Only 1 year Sigfox?

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    Update: Sigfox confirmed it's 1 year now: https://ask.sigfox.com/questions/5899/lopy-4-1-year-connectivity-or-2.html Still not a bad deal I think, as 1 year's worth is still about half the price of the LoPy4. But it would be good to clarify this on the website.
  • Many devices from one connection?

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    Hi @james-matthews, Maybe a LoRa mesh network? (Note: it's still in development) What type of devices do you have?
  • Sipy sigfox functionality custom firmware.

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    @calvinblock44 Sigfox enforces that the devices that consume their service need to be registered manufacturers, the Pycom's Sigfox native library contains sensitive information and code that need to be packed and secured (As more as possible). From there you have two options, construct your wifi sniffing functionality over the official firmware or select a more appropriate hardware that fit your needs. Be aware also that if you are planning to create a final product using certified boards your are not allowed to modify the RF code because is highly possible to void the certification if the code modify the way of signal emission.
  • WiFi in promiscuous mode

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  • How to make sense of gps data sent to sigfox

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    @james-matthews struct.unpack work with "byte" objet. As we have to unpack a float this "byte" object must have a size of 4 bytes. [https://docs.python.org/2/library/struct.html] This float , have been packed in a binary form '''s.send(struct.pack('f',float(latitude)) + struct.pack('f',float(longitude)))''' then sent to sigfox backend data and showed in hexadecimal '''d5034f42b552a0bf''' so, to have original value you just have to unpack it from hexadecimal to float ''' lat=b'\xd5\x03\x4f\x42' '''this is the way to create and assign hexadecimal value to a 'python byte object' with len=4