Keep-alive

Keep-alive command explanation

Periodically sent message which contains the most important device data. The default keep-alive period is 60 minutes.

The data is described in Table 2. In Table 3 example packet is given.

Table 2.

Example of sending a packet from the device to the server: [Hex]: 42C21A

Table 3.

Keepalive period

Example command, [Hex]: 05000A - The example sets the keep-alive period to 10 minutes.

Note that the period value must respect the LoRaWAN messages duty cycle limitations. Otherwise the message will be sent when this is allowed. Also, the bigger period value, the less battery discharge. In most of cases, min. allowed period is 3 minutes and recommended values are 10 minutes or greater.

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