is it possible to install ChirpStack as HA integration/Add on?
I will ask the author if he would be prepared to look at this although he is a very very very busy dude…
If you’re looking to integrate LoRaWAN sensors into Home Assistant without hosting your own LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS), these two architecture workflows may help.
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Helium Network Integration :
- Sensor data is routed from Helium Console to AWS IoT Core, then flows through a local MQTT bridge into Home Assistant : Helium-Network-AWS-IoT-Core-Home-Assistant
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Kerlink Gateway (Private LNS via AWS) :
- LoRaWAN packets are sent from a Kerlink gateway to AWS’s managed LoRaWAN Network Server. MQTT messages are forwarded via a local bridge to Home Assistant on-prem : Kerlink-LoRaWAN-To-AWS-IoT-Core
Setting up chirpstack in docker is a relatively painless task and keeps to the whole ethos of Home Assistant by keeping all apps and data on your own infrastructure…. 3rd party LNS usually comes at a cost both in $$$ and latency….Additionally, I would steer very clear of Helium. Whilst yes you could “earn” by rebroadcasting the helium network, you will also pay to receive your own data… from your own infrastructure(gateways) what I have seen loads of small setups do is actually simply configure your gateways to forward packets over mqtt and thus negating the need for an LNS completely… Finally, when it comes to the big boys (aws,msft,goog) well, i have some pretty big enterprise clients that can’t even afford that…
Well, i have to use Helium as my soil / moisture sensors are in a garden 3km away behind a hill. So i doubt a own gateway will connect.
TTN has not enough gateways in the area, Helium does.
For Helium i have to go the route HeyIOT/ MeteoScientific LNS (rates are cheap, 5€ last very long) → Datacake (free for 5 sensors, no bigtech cloud) → NodeRed → MQTT/HA.
I have connected devices around 125km away, albeit with line of sight. You could also look to use a small relay on a pole in the garden… but if otherwise if you happy to use that setup and it works for you, then cool
hey guys, do you already know about mioty? its the cool brother of LoRa and the new kid on the block when it comes to LPWAN technology. I am on the way of impementing a complete open source version of mioty as homeassistant plugin, give me some more days and this is working 
The mioty community is growing rapidly and has qualitative better stuff than lora has.
Edit: I did make a post on that invetween- here it is:
greets,
plas
You can look at my Project LoRaWAN with Application Server https://github.com/J-Paul0815/SmartHome/tree/main/Projects/Lorawan_LNS_plus_AS
Now the Bridge to HA is implemented, so you get Devices and Entities ZeroTouch, read/Write bidirectional
I finally got the time to get your node-red flow running. Its working quiet well, thanks alot!
Right now my TTN sensors are integrated perfectly.
The Helium Sensors are connected via Datake, hopefully i am able to adapt the flow for this input as well.