@xueliu I found this global_conf.json script and autogenerated gateway configs from TTN that will help us a lot in packaging this: https://github.com/TheThingsNetwork/gateway-conf

I'm adding it to my PicoGW packages, I think it would make sense if you add it too... or perhaps we could create an independent package that wraps it up for both of us? Something line lora-ttn-gateway-configs and put it as a dependency for our packet forwarder packages?

That way it would make it easier to not repeat ourselves and reuse that package for our respective installations?

Looking through your PR, I think I might just drop my PR and stick with yours (good job with the UCI integration and all)... not sure if the SPI vs USB support is easily patchable. If that's the case, it'll be the best thing to do (instead of keeping 4 different packages, be done with just 2, your lora-gateway-hal and lora-packet-forwarder, the best thing to do w.r.t UX and avoiding duplication).

I went ahead and compared both codebases and they differ a bit on the start/init sequence, so it might not be worth the effort to patch/PR both codebases together on a second thought:

lgw_start() on PicoGW (HAL):
https://github.com/Lora-net/picoGW_hal/blob/master/libloragw/src/loragw_hal.c#L825

lgw_start() on lora_gateway (HAL):
https://github.com/Lora-net/lora_gateway/blob/a955619271b5d0a46d32e08150acfbc1eed183b7/libloragw/src/loragw_hal.c#L696

So forget what I mentioned on the previous comment about having just 2 "merged" packages instead of 4.

@xueliu I found this global_conf.json script and autogenerated gateway configs from TTN that will help us a lot in packaging this: https://github.com/TheThingsNetwork/gateway-conf

I'm adding it to my PicoGW packages, I think it would make sense if you add it too... or perhaps we could create an independent package that wraps it up for both of us? Something line lora-ttn-gateway-configs and put it as a dependency for our packet forwarder packages?

That way it would make it easier to not repeat ourselves and reuse that package for our respective installations?

We can make a package to hold json files in https://github.com/TheThingsNetwork/gateway-conf. But the problem is how to dynamic switch different json files.

We can make a package to hold json files in https://github.com/TheThingsNetwork/gateway-conf. But the problem is how to dynamic switch different json files.

That's exactly right, I think that your approach with the https://github.com/xueliu/lora-feed is the way to go.

Commit subject line MUST start with '<package name>: ' ( LoRa: Add package packet-forwarder)

Should be lora-packet-forwarder: Add

@xueliu Hi do you mind I rebase this & adopt the commit message?

Work continues here #13379