General information

Ronoth LoStiks work on a Microchip RN2903 LoRa module and all of the RN2903 module’s settings and commands are transmitted over UART using the ASCII interface.

Default settings for the UART interface are 57600 bps, 8 bits, no parity, 1 Stop bit, no flow control.

There are three types of inputs, which are sys, radio and, mac commands.

• Sys commands, as the name implies, are about the hardware configuration of the device e.g. factory reset, sleep mode, information about hardware version, preprogrammed EUI address node address, etc.

• Radio group commands are to control and configure the PHY level radio features. These commands issue radio specific configurations, directly accessing and updating the transceiver setup.

• Mac group commands, however, issue LoRaWAN® Class A and Class C protocol network communication behaviors, actions, and configurations.

Details of the configurable parameters are given in the RN2903 LoRa Technology Module User Guide below.

The LoRa Alliance^®, an open nonprofit association, is developing and maintaining LoRaWAN^® protocol as the leading open global standard for secure, carrier-grade IoT LPWAN connectivity. Details of LoRaWAN protocol is here.