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Review on πŸ“‘ Lora Shield 915Mhz RFM95W Wireless Module for Arduino: Low Power Consumption, Compatible with UNO, Mega, Leonardo, Due - 3.3V/5V, Antenna IPEX Included by Yalena Torres

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Nice easy way to learn LoRa

This board was a nice easy addition to my existing LoRa and LoRAWAN Arduino Mega Board. Just a tip, the software installation instructions are a bit obtuse. I've followed "Example 1 - Use with LMIC library for LoRaWAN compatibility" and found that the instructions don't fully match the code. However, I managed to figure it out and get it working. Another tip: the software that manages the board is interrupt driven, so if you use a different interrupt-sensitive sensor you might run into problems. I ended up using Scope to find out that the non-blocking DHT11 driver failed when using this board and associated bits. Using a blocking driver for DHT11 helped. Now I can send temperature and humidity data from Arduino Mega to LoRaWAN gateway, through LoRaWAN network server and to AWS IoT with this shield and connected DHT11. Hooray!

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