Installation

This section covers bootstrap and configuration of the Linux system and the full LoRaWAN + monitoring software stack, one shared procedure for both FIBER hardware variants:

FIBER: the industrial version, based on Compute Module 4.
FIBER Lite: a Raspberry Pi 5 based bench-test appliance.

The two variants only diverge at the hardware level (flashing, RTC, the LoRaWAN concentrator's USB vs. SPI connection). The page itself has tabs at those few points. Everything else, including InfluxDB, Grafana, and the branded Dashboard, is identical and installed on both.

Which device is this for?

A FIBER you received is already set up. There is nothing on these pages for you to run. It ships as a finished appliance: the operating system, ChirpStack, the concentrator and the rest of the stack are all part of its image, and it updates as a whole rather than package by package. Go straight to Register a Gateway and a Device, and to FIBER Hardware Guides for the display and 1-Wire sensors.

These pages are the build procedure: how that image is put together, and how to bring up a FIBER Lite unit from a blank microSD card. Follow them for FIBER Lite, or when building a FIBER image from scratch.

info

See FIBER Lite in the sidebar for FIBER Lite's hardware differences (no display, no 1-Wire sensors), and FIBER Hardware Guides for what to do with the display/1-Wire hardware that only FIBER has.

In this guide, we use two terms:

HOST: The computer from which you will perform the setup.
TARGET: The actual FIBER device you are setting up.

Follow the pages below in order:

Data Flow

ChirpStack, Node-RED, InfluxDB, and Grafana all run on the device itself, with no separate servers or cloud services required:

A landing page on port 80 links to every service and shows live system stats, so the device is usable without memorizing ports or IP-to-service mappings.

Data Flow​

Data Flow