Monitor & Remote Access Gateway

Version 4.1 by Edwin Chen on 2022/05/02 08:32

Contents

Monitor Gateway
Remote Access
- Remote Access via Remote.it.
- RSSH Introduction
  - End User Guide to use SSH access

Monitor Gateway

Introduction

This introduction shows how to use a script to monitor the gateway. The video link for this instruction is: https://youtu.be/8PieIwfSF_g

Steps

Create account in ThingsSpeak and creat channel.
Download script from dragino site and move it to properly directory

root@dragino-1baf44:~# wget http://www.dragino.com/downloads/downloads/LoRa_Gateway/LPS8/Firmware/customized_script/monitor_gateway.sh
Downloading 'http://www.dragino.com/downloads/downloads/LoRa_Gateway/LPS8/Firmware/customized_script/monitor_gateway.sh'
Connecting to 162.241.22.11:80
Writing to 'monitor_gateway.sh'
monitor_gateway.sh 100% |*******************************| 1860 0:00:00 ETA
Download completed (1860 bytes)
root@dragino-1baf44:~# chmod +x monitor_gateway.sh;mv monitor_gateway.sh /usr/bin/
root@dragino-1baf44:~#
root@dragino-1baf44:~#

change the script monitor_gateway.sh with properly users setting:

USER='xxxxx' # user name in your thinkspeak --> Profile
PASS='xxxxx' #MQTT_API_KEY in your thinkspeak --> Profile

CHAN_ID='xxxx' #Channel ID of the channel for this gateway
CHAN_KEY='xxxxx' #Channel Write API of the channel for this gateway

run /usr/bin/monitor_gateway.sh to test if upload is good.

Add monitor_gateway.sh to cron work /etc/crontabs/root to make this script runs perdiocally, below is an example to update every 20 minutes

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# | | | | |
# * * * * * user-name command to be executed

#*/10 * * * * checklog

* 23 * * * /etc/init.d/auto_update start
*/20 * * * * /usr/bin/monitor_gateway.sh

Reboot device.

Monitor Public IP

The monitor_gateway.sh has been updated to upload the public ip of the device as well.

User can find the public ip in field7, the chart is not able to show the complete public ip, user can check that in the export.

Find Public IP

Remote Access

Remote Access via Remote.it.

Remote.it for remote access is available in the latest Dragino firmware for gateway. For security concern, the remote.it only available base on end user demand.

Important Notice:

Remote.it access will give full control of your device to remote support.
The Remote.it allow Dragino Support to remote access to the device, If user want to access himself, it need to sign up for an remote.it account.

For how to use remoteit, please see : Remoteit user instruction for Dragino Gateway.

RSSH Introduction

Reverse SSH for remote access is available in the latest Dragino firmware for gateway. For security concern, the RSSH only available base on end user demand.

Important Notice:

RSSH access will give full control of your device to remote support. Please remove sensitivity info before perform this
This RSSH allow Dragino Support to remote access to the device, If user want to access himself, he need to set up the RSSH server himself.

Below gateway support reverse SSH access:

Firmware Version > lgw--build-v5.4.1618196981-20210412-1111 Firmware Download
LG01N, OLG01N (Note: LG01-P LG01-S doesn't support)
LG02, OLG02
LG308, DLOS8
LPS8
LIG16
MS14 series if installed with the same firmware.

End User Guide to use SSH access

Go to this the Reverse SSH page as below:

Get the RSSH configure page

Connection OK.

Login ID: Input sshuser
Host Address: Input support.dragino.com
Host Port : Please email to support @ dragino.com to get a valid host port.
Connect at Startup : Choose to enable connect once the device is powered.
Network Keys; Click the Generate keys to generate the keys and download / mail it to Dragino support so Dragino can prepare the remote access to

After doing above, please download and mail the public keys to Dragino support and wait for our mail for the valid host port. Input the valid host port got from our support and click connect so we can remote access to your gateway.

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