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The Things Gateway Firmware

Installation

Installing the firmware is usually done using over-the-air updates from our official releases. Here are the steps to install custom firmware:

  • Prepare a FAT32-formatted SD card with a folder called update.
  • Copy the firmware.hex and checksums files to the update folder.
  • Place the SD card in the gateway and power cycle the gateway.
SDCARD
└── update
    ├── checksums
    └── firmware.hex

Firmware Releases

Branch Downloads Notes
stable firmware.hex checksums Default over-the-air update channel
beta firmware.hex checksums Over-the-air update channel when "Beta Updates" enabled
master firmware.hex checksums Release candidate for stable
develop firmware.hex checksums Release candidate for beta

Development Setup

You probably already have the following "essential" development tools, but just to be sure:

  • build-essential or XCode (includes git and make)
  • sha256sum (from GNU coreutils)

Get the source code and initialize the submodules to get the dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/TheThingsProducts/gateway.git
git submodule update --init

Download the following tools from the Microchip download pages:

Tool Windows Mac Linux
MPLAB IDE X v3.45 link link link
MPLAB XC32 v1.42 link link link
Harmony v1.08.01 link link link

Fix MPLab script

After building the project using the MPLabX GUI, the paths in the configurations.xml are made platform dependent. In order to fix this, run the ./fix_mplab.sh script.

Local Build

  • Make sure you have downloaded and installed the IDE and compilers stated at Development Setup above.
  • Run ./compile.sh.
  • After successful build, create the firmware.hex and checksums files with ./generate_hex_with_checksum.sh.
  • Use those two files in the Installation procedure above.

Build server

  • Make sure you have downloaded and installed the IDE and compilers stated at Development Setup above.
  • Install Jenkins Server
  • Create Multi branch Pipline project
  • Link this repository
  • Hit Scan Multibranch Pipeline Now

Build in Docker

  • Install Docker
  • To build the Docker image, run docker build -t firmware-builder -f Dockerfile.build . (uou only need to do this once).
  • To compile the firmware, run docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/build -w /build firmware-builder ./compile.sh && ./generate_hex_with_checksum.sh

TASKS

Task Priority Size
LORA_READ 7 4096
TCPIP_TASKS 6 4096
WIFI_DRV 5 2048
SYS_TASKS 4 4096
LORA_TASKS 3 4096
APP_TASKS 2 4096
MQTTTASK 1 4096

SERIALFLASH LAYOUT

Sector Address Content Length (Bytes)
0 0 SHA256 Hash of current FW 32
1 4096 Magic Bytes 4
4100 Network Type 1
4101 Security Mode 1
4102 WiFi SSID 32 + 1
4135 WiFi Security Key 64 + 1
2 8192 Magic Bytes 4
8196 Gateway ID 100
8296 Gateway Key 200
8496 Account Server URL 255
8751 Locked flag 1
3 12288 Magic Bytes 4
12292 FW Image Length 4
12296 SHA256 Hash of new FW 32
4 16384 FW Image FW Image Length