Public Network Mode

[Lawrence Griffiths]

The manual states
>> join windows open at the default 5/6 seconds after end of transmission for OTA

Does this happen automatically?
Or do you have to set a Dot using AT+JD=5 ??
What bearing does AT+JD have in public network mode?

The reason for asking is I’ve had problems with a number of dot’s joining when APE Conduit is set to public mode. Though 3rd party devices work perfectly.
I can see the the join response message in Debug it looks around 5 secs after join request. So set AT+JD=5 and that seems to have helped but not all the time.

Feel I’m shooting in the dark what’s the correct practice?

Thanks
Lawrence

[Mike Fiore]

Lawrence,

If the mDot/xDot is set to public network mode using AT+PN=1 or mDot::setPublicNetwork(true), you should be good to go.

Just setting the join delay to 5 will not work because the sync words are different between public and private modes. Changing the join delay should only be done to match a gateway with non-standard delays between the packet reception and transmission of the response. This is not likely to be the case.

Introduction to LoRa

Cheers,
Mike

[Lawrence Griffiths]

Mike thanks am using AT+PN=1

Just starting dinging when I was seeing the join and packet_sent on MQTT on AEP but the Dot was failing to join.

Will go back to defaults.

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