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(C)2014 Semtech-Cycleo
Background Spectral Scan for LoRa gateway
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1. Introduction
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This software is used to scan the spectral band where the LoRa gateway operates.
It simply computes a RSSI histogram on several frequencies, that will help to
detect occupied bands and get interferer profiles.
It logs the histogram in a .csv file.
This utility program is meant to run on the LoRa gateway reference design
SX1301AP2 (with FPGA and additionnal SX127x).
The background RSSI scan is a diagnostic tool and must be run on top of the
gateway activity. Moreover the two SX1257 radios have to be configured in RX
mode to optimize the matching impedance with SX127x. The 32MHz clock provided
to the SX127x is available once SX1301 has enabled the two SX1257 radios, so
the background RSSI scan must be launched after the packet forwarder.
Note: if the FPGA running the spectral scan also supports Listen-Before-Talk
feature (LBT), the LBT feature has to be enabled and running before launching
util_spectral_scan. For example, if the lora_pkt_fwd runs in background, it has
to use a global_conf.json file with "lbt_cfg.enable" set to true.
2. Command line options
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`-h`
will display a short help
`-f start:step:stop`
Frequency vector to scan in MHz: start:step:stop
Valid range: start > 800, step > 0.005, stop < 1000
`-b`
Channel bandwidth to be used to configure the SX1272x radio for scanning in KHz
Valid values: [25,50,100,125,200,250,500]
`-n`
Total number of RSSI points.
Valid range: [1..65535]
`-l`
Log file name
Note: For FPGA image that provides LBT support, the spectral scan gets less
flexible. The following parameters have constraints:
- Frequency step: has to be multiple of 100KHz
- Channel bandwidth: hardcoded to 200KHz
- Number of RSSI points: 16641
3. Usage
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The format of the log file is the following:
Freq_1, RSSI_1, histo_1, ...., RSSI_128, histo_128
Freq_2, RSSI_1, histo_1, ...., RSSI_128, histo_128
...
RSSI_n is the nth value of RSSI in dBm
Default setup:
- freq 863 : 0.2 : 870
- 65535 RSSI points in total at 32kHz rate
- 125KHz channel bandwidth
Example with frequencies from 865 MHz to 870 MHz, by step of 100KHz, BW 200KHz
10000 RSSI points processed at 10kHz rate, saved in "log.csv":
./util_spectral_scan -f 865:0.1:870 -n 10000 -b 200 -l "log"
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