How to integrate TagoIO with Helium

@Vitor Lima

Here is a quick tutorial showing how to add any LoRaWAN device through Helium (Network Server). By following this tutorial, your setup will be ready to perform uplink and downlink operations (data from and to your end-point devices).

1. First go to the official Helium Documentation and follow the steps to setup Helium with TagoIO.

2. Now, you just need to start adding Device in your TagoIO account.
Go to Devices/LoraWaN Helium, and choose the device connector from the list. Enter your device EUI - you can use the QR code to capture the EUI.

Note: if the device that you are looking for connecting with TagoIO is not in the list, you can always select the Custom Helium option and you can add the Parser for it later.

3. In order to perform downlinks, check the official documentation at TagoIO
Downlink for LoRaWAN™
Downlinks using Dashboards

@Vitor Lima

Downlink for Helium integration is now supported. No additional configuration is required.

console.Helium is now limited to 10 devices and intended for R&D and personal uses. Are there plans for Tago to host their own Helium Console?

Hello Jacob,

I had the same question. Now you need to use a third party company to keep using Helium. Im currently using https://www.helium-iot.eu. So far is working perfect. Good luck.

Currently, there is not any plan to do that.

TagoIO works with several network services, and as today we just support who is using Helium for their sensor connectivity.

I am using the binary file in the Ubuntu machine and Amazon linux. Both seems to throwing the same error.

express deprecated req.host: Use req.hostname instead at ../root/.tagocore/Plugins/5f10ddfefec15ce2f22af79af3d58cb8/build

/index.js:66:21177

I am trying compiling the source code. Can you please tell me how to compile the binary and plugins.

Hi Saravana,

The error you’re receiving is from the helium plugin.

Strange, I installed Tagocore v0.7.1 and Helium LoRaWAN plugin v0.7.0 and it worked as expected.

What versions are you using?

Whats you objective for compiling the source code?

The Helium Console doesn’t allow for new accounts that want to add even 1 device. I have a client that wants to have their own Helium network account + TagoIO account. I’ve registered their own TagoIO account but the question is re the LNS/Console that they can move their device to, which is also needed to integrate w/ the new TagoIO account - any suggestions? The link above for https://www.helium-iot.eu/use-helium-with-helium-iot-europe/ is broken so I suspect that service is also no use.

Hello Peter,

Helium no longer provisions new tenants on its original Console. Their current guidance is to migrate devices to a ChirpStack-based LoRaWAN Network Server. The documentation below explains the setup :

https://docs.helium.com/iot/run-an-lns/configure-chirpstack/