The Things Industries TTIG Series User manual

Getting Started with TTIG
Salient Features
Activate your gateway in less than 5 mins
• An 8 channel LoRaWAN indoor gateway
• One of the first gateways to support the state-of-the-art
Basic station Protocol
• Supports LBT.
• Simple setup steps taking lesser than 5 mins.
• Can connect to any network backend of choice.
• Setup and Connectivity over WiFi.
• Built-in omnidirectional antenna for indoor use.
• EU868, US915, AS923 and CN470 versions available.
• Security via a range of modes.
• Press the reset button (small button at the back of the gateway next to the USB-C
port) for 5 seconds until the LED blinks rapidly GREEN<->RED for a couple of times.
• Hold the SETUP (button at the top of the gateway, next to the LED) for 10 seconds until
the LED blinks rapidly in RED.
• The gateway now exposes a WiFi AP whose SSID is MINIHUB-xxxxxx where xxxxxx is the
last 6 digits of the gateway ID.
• The password for this network is printed on the back panel of the device under WiFi PW.
• After connecting to this network go to 192.168.4.1 using a web browser to access the
WiFi config page.

• Select the WiFi network and enter the password if it’s a closed network.
• Select the “Save and Reboot” option.
• If your config is right,
• The gateway will blink GREEN for a few seconds while it connects to this network.
• Then, it will blink GREEN<->RED for a few seconds while it connects to the CUPS
endpoint and fetches the necessary information to connect to the LNS traffic
endpoint.
• If your configuration was successful, the LED will be solid GREEN which means that the
gateway is connected to the LoRaWAN network and is ready to handle packets.

• To connect this gateway to the The Things Network console, register the gateway using
the I’m using the Legacy Packet Forwarder option.
• The EUI of the gateway is NOT the WiFi MAC address printed on the back of the gateway
but is derived from the first number on the top of the sticker below the QR code.
• This number can also be obtained from the WiFi Setup Page
• To derive this take the code for example 5BA0CB80042B and insert FFFE to after the first
6 characters to make it a 64bit EUI such as 5BA0CBFFFE80042B
• This is the value to be entered in the Gateway ID field on the console.
• Enter in other details such as location, frequency plan and router.
• If your configuration was successful, you should start receiving packets (if there are
LoRaWAN nodes transmitting nearby).
Connection to the The Things Network Backend

• In this mode, the device acts as a WiFi AP to which users can connect and configure a WiFi
network(s) to which the gateway will connect to during normal operation. The device cannot
route LoRaWAN packets in this mode.
Operating Modes
LED states
Configuration Mode (CONF)
• In this mode, the device acts as a gateway to route traffic between the LoRaWAN Device
and the Network. The WiFi AP for configuration is not available in this mode.
Color(s)
Illuminating
Pattern
Operating
Mode
Meaning
GREEN
Blinking (freq
1 sec)
GW
WiFi not connected (or
trying to connect)
GREEN
Blinking (freq
1/4 sec)
GW
Connected to WiFi,
establishing connection to
LNS/Configuring radio
GREEN
Solid
GW
Connected to WiFi, connected to
LNS backend, listening for Packets
GREEN/RED
Alternate Blinking
(freq 1/4 sec)
CONF
Scanning WiFi networks,
setting up Config AP
RED
Blinking (freq
1/4 sec)
CONF
Config AP Active
Gateway Mode (GW)

There are three possible button actions on the TTIG
• SETUP Button pressed for 10s:
• Switch to CONF mode if in GW mode.
• SETUP Button pressed for 5s:
• Reboot if in CONF mode, do nothing in GW mode.
• RESET Button pressed for 5s:
• Factory reset (wipe out WiFi and LNS credentials, though CUPS credentials are
retained).
Button Actions