LoRa Notecard sending data to Notehub even without Blues gateway

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Hello,

I’m observing something puzzling. My setup involves sending sensor data from a battery-powered device using a Blues LoRa Notecard to Notehub via a Blues LoRa gateway. Here’s the weird part: yesterday, I unplugged my gateway and took the sensor to work. Surprisingly, the data still got sent to Notehub a few times, even without the gateway being on.

Once I got home and powered the gateway back up, everything continued as usual. Check out the attached screenshot—the orange rectangle shows the period where data was sent without the gateway.

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Could my Notecard be connecting to a different gateway at work? Any ideas what’s going on here?

Thanks!

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Hi @e669danesh,

Yes, if there is another available LoRaWAN gateway on The Things Network, your Notecard LoRa will automatically connect to it and start delivering data.

Thanks,
Rob

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Thanks, that’s what I guessed.
I wonder if there are security implications for this and whether there are settings at your end that can control this behaviour?

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It’s not something that we can control - it’s actually a major benefit of using LoRaWAN! The LoRa Alliance has a good whitepaper on the topic.

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