HowToSetupTTN.md

Setting up TTN

Setting up a new TTN Application

Register for an account at https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/
Login and navigate to https://console.thethingsnetwork.org/
Click on APPLICATIONS to go to the application panel.

Click on the add application button to add a new application.

Give the application a unique application ID and choose the proper handler with respect to the region where the application is to be deployed.

The website will redirect to the application's overview page right after it is created.

Setting the Payload Format

Click on the Payload Formats tab on the upper right corner of the Application Overview page. Choose CayenneLPP from the drop-down menu and click save.

Registering a Device

From the the Application Overview page, click on the Devices tab. Click on the register device button.

Give the device a unique device name (within the scope of the application, meaning there should be no other devices in the application with the same name).
On the Device EUI section, click the generate button to automatically generate a Device EUI.
Click the Register button to finish registering the device.

The website will redirect to the Device Overview page after registration is complete. Note that:

• The Activation Method must be OTAA (changable in the Settings tab).
• Device EUI, Application EUI and App Key are essensital for the configuration within the embedded software which will be covered in section 5.1.2