Configuration Overview
The device configuration allows a wide range and flexible way of internal settings adjustments for Lobaro hardware. This chapter generally describes our tools, common configuration parameters and workflows that are used in the same way for many Lobaro devices to adjust the used configuration.
Device and firmware specific parameters are explained in the respective product documentation.
Different ways to configure
There are two ways of configuring our devices in existence. On the one hand locally where you need physical access to a device and on the other hand remotely over the air. For larger rollouts only remote updates of configuration showed to be a feasible way to go.
Locally
Any Lobaro device configuration can be set and read out locally via a PC with the Lobaro configuration USB adapter and the Lobaro Maintenance Tool.
Some network related parameters, such as the APN of the mobile cellular network provider, must usually first be configured correctly locally before the device can get online for the first time.
Remotely
Once the device has connectivity the configuration can be changed remotely over the air using various methods, e.g. the Lobaro IoT Platform, MQTT or any LoRaWAN network server using initiated special downlink communication:
For larger orders, a customer specific configuration agreed upon can also be installed by Lobaro during production provisioning. This way manual reconfiguration from the firmware defaults can be avoided before installing the devices in the field and over the air configuration will work out of the box.