lorawan-stack vs PaperiNode

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lorawan-stack		PaperiNode
	Project
5	Mentions	2
902	Stars	72
1.4%	Growth	-
9.9	Activity	0.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
Go	Language
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

lorawan-stack

Posts with mentions or reviews of lorawan-stack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-26.

Is it possible to set up a LoRa network that doesn't connect to The Things Network and is independent and internal?
5 projects | /r/Lora | 26 Feb 2023

Yes, you can. They even offer you to just use their software stack, to spin up a netqork with the same stack.
Help with sending sensor data to SQL
2 projects | /r/Lora | 21 Nov 2022
Building a Private Lora Network
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2022

The Things Stack - the server that is hosted by TTN - can also be installed and run locally for free, with the same feature set as the TTN hosted community network.
https://www.thethingsindustries.com/docs/getting-started/ins...
https://github.com/TheThingsNetwork/lorawan-stack
Questions from a mere mortal
1 project | /r/IOT | 12 Feb 2021

Github: https://github.com/thethingsnetwork/lorawan-stack

PaperiNode

Posts with mentions or reviews of PaperiNode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-02.

LoraPaper: A Connected EPaper Device That Runs on Light
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Sep 2023

https://github.com/RobPo/PaperiNode/tree/master
This project by the same author appears to be the same but newer?
Selfpowered E-Paper Node for LoRaWAN
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lorawan-stack and PaperiNode you can also consider the following projects:

chirpstack-gateway-os - OpenWrt based gateway images including ChirpStack components.

evcc - Sonne tanken ☀️🚘

kubeedge - Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework (project under CNCF)

ESP32-Paxcounter - Wifi & BLE driven passenger flow metering with cheap ESP32 boards

e-Paper

Lua-RTOS-ESP32 - Lua RTOS for ESP32

BFree - BFree: Enabling Battery-free Sensor Prototyping with Python

mainflux - Industrial IoT Messaging and Device Management Platform

esp32-weather-epd - A low-power E-Paper weather display powered by an ESP32 microcontroller. Utilizes the OpenWeatherMap API.

EByte-LoRa-Manager-esp32-Gateway - A simple LoRa gateway that put all received message in a web socket server, with a complete web-based configuration interface.

lorapaper - LoraPaper Arduino Library