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lorawan-stack		mainflux
	Project
5	Mentions	2
902	Stars	26
1.4%	Growth	-
9.9	Activity	8.7
6 days ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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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

mainflux

Posts with mentions or reviews of mainflux. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-21.

How to create a django microservices monorepo?
2 projects | /r/django | 21 Sep 2022

For something more advanced you can look at this example but this is very advanced, its from an IoT platform written in Golang - https://github.com/mainflux/mainflux
Trying to use Kivy To Control ESP8266 From Smartphone
1 project | /r/kivy | 24 Jan 2021

There is lots of software to choose from, I suggest you have a look at Mainflux, and Mosquitto is popular for broker. Thingsboard is a turnkey solution, it's nice in some ways, but also very slow and heavy. Other options to research in this wikipedia article.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

flogo - Project Flogo is an open source ecosystem of opinionated event-driven capabilities to simplify building efficient & modern serverless functions, microservices & edge apps.

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

gobot - Golang framework for robotics, drones, and the Internet of Things (IoT)

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

gatt - Gatt is a Go package for building Bluetooth Low Energy peripherals

Lua-RTOS-ESP32 - Lua RTOS for ESP32

PaperiNode - Selfpowered E-Paper Node for LoRaWAN

connectordb - An aggregator for personal metrics, and an extensible analysis engine

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.

devices - Suite of libraries for IoT devices (written in Go), experimental for x/exp/io