Cannnot send from Arduino to Raspberry pi via LoRa

Question

I am trying to send messages from my Arduino to my Raspberry pi. But I don't understand why the pi isn't receiving the messages.

On the Arduino side I'm using an Arduino UNO with a Dragino Lora/GPS shield, using the Radiohead library.

On the Pi side, the Upotronics LoRa hat for the pi zero and a pi zero, which is based on a RFM95 chip. And on the software side I'm using the Raspi Lora library.

I wrote a couple of simple programs just to test the connection, and I can send messages from the raspberry to the Arduino, but not the other way around.

Am I making a mistake in the code on either sending the data from the Arduino or receiving it on the raspberry that prevents this?

Code for the Arduino: This one sends data it gets from serial port and awaits radio input when nothing is available.

#include <SPI.h>
#include <RH_RF95.h>
RH_RF95 rf95;
void setup(){
  Serial.begin(9600);
  if (rf95.init()){
    Serial.println("Init Success");
  } else {
    Serial.println("Init Failed");
  }
  if (rf95.setFrequency(868)) Serial.println("Freq set for 868Mhz");
  if (!rf95.setModemConfig(RH_RF95::Bw125Cr45Sf128)) Serial.println("Invalid modem");
Serial.println("Send serial data to echo it through radio");
}
void loop(){
  uint8_t data[100];
  uint8_t len;
  if (Serial.available()){
    delay(20);
    int i = 0;
    while (Serial.available() && i < sizeof(data)-1){
      data[i] = Serial.read();
      i++;
      data[i] = 0;
    }
    rf95.setModeTx();
    if(rf95.send(data,i))
    {
      Serial.print("Message sent: ");
      Serial.println((char *) data);
      Serial.println(i);
    } else {
      Serial.println("Failure to send");
    }
  }
if (rf95.available())
  {
    if (rf95.recv((uint8_t )data,&len)){
      Serial.println("Got it");
      Serial.println((char )data);
      Serial.println(len);
    }
  }
}

Raspberry pi code: This one just initializes the lora instance, I run it on the interactive console and in theory it should print data, but as much as I tried I haven't managed to catch an IRQ on any of the pins when I send a message.

from raspi_lora import LoRa, ModemConfig
This is our callback function that runs when a message is received
def on_recv(payload):
    print("From:", payload.header_from)
    print("Received:", payload.message)
    print("RSSI: {}; SNR: {}".format(payload.rssi, payload.snr))
lora = LoRa(0, 25, 2,freq=868, receive_all=True, modem_config=ModemConfig.Bw125Cr45Sf128)
lora.on_recv = on_recv
lora.set_mode_rx()

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 12 '21 at 19:01

I figured it out. Turns out there was a bug in the raspi_lora library I used for my python code. It is so that, if you are not specifically sending to the device address or have receive_all=True, it will do nothing with the messages.

If you plan to use the raspi_lora library you should replace line 268 in the lora.py file with

if (self._this_address != header_to) and ((header_to != BROADCAST_ADDRESS) or (self._receive_all is False)):

Cannnot send from Arduino to Raspberry pi via LoRa

This is our callback function that runs when a message is received

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