Issues with LoRa Nucleo Pack

[KMill]

Having checked the ST Website for LoRaWAN kits I settled on the LoRa LF Sensor and Gateway kit (P-NUCLEO-LRWAN3)

There is no mention on the website that this pack is obsolete or end of life. I always check that because I have been burned before by ST products being stocked by distributors, but being no longer supported.

The first issue I encountered was the instructions telling me to sign up for a Cayenne account, but the Cayenne project was shuttered in 2023. Dead end number one.

Then when trying to install the I-CUBE-LRWAN packeage into CubeIDE it gives the following error after selecting the zip package:

(And don't get me started on how awful the UI for adding expansion packs is.)

Are ST are no longer supporting this pack, since there are no errata or updates on the product page to cover any issues like Cayenne being shuttered? (I know that Cayenne is not essential, but there should at least be an errata with differential instructions to cover it.)

I am so fed up spending good money on ST products only to find they are obsolete, end-of-life, or only supported on older versions of the IDE tools.

[STTwo-32]

Hello @KMill 

For the I-Cube-LRWAN, it is not compatible with CubeMX. You can't add it to CubeMX and use directly throw it. You should add it manually to your project.

Best Regards.

STTwo-32

[KMill]

Thanks for the quick reply @STTwo-32 

It would be good of there was an errata and a getting-started added to the package (i-cube-lrwan) and the product (P-NUCLEO-LRWAN2/3).

There are no installation instructions anywhere that I could find for the package.

[Andrew Neil]

The P-NUCLEO-LRWAN2 is marked as "NRND" - probably should say, "obsolete" ?

It seems that the P-NUCLEO-LRWAN3 probably should be, too - not sure that Rising HF are supporting the modules any more?

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@KMill wrote:

There are no installation instructions .

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Presumably because there is no installation to do - it's just a load of source files.

[KMill]

Hi Andrew

This is where I'm a wee bit lost, I think I must have missed a simple tutorial somewhere.

I download the ZIP and extract it.

It contains a bunch of folders, and drivers, and all kinds of goodness, which looks exactly like the structure of an expansion pack. Which are normally added via "Manage embedded software packages"

What it does not conatin is a bunch of source files.

I must have missed some detail on how to work with these expansion packs, which is why it would benefit from a read.me at least. Or I need to go back and learn what I missed!!

[STTwo-32]

Hello @KMill 

The available support is the UM2073 that should be really helpful for the first steps. For the implementation, I think you should follow the implementations of the examples already available on the package. 

Best Regards.

STTwo-32

[KMill]

@STTwo-32 Thanks for your help, also @Andrew Neil 

I have read that doc already, it's full of great detail on the devices and the package capabilities, but nothing about how to actually integrate the package into a new project. I'm sure it'd something simple I've missed.

[STTwo-32]

Just try to follow one of the Examples and how the functions are integrated there and that should do the job for you.

Best Regards.

STTwo-32