Repeater on a "plain" Raspberry Pi w/Waveshare LoRa HAT – no can do #9

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2026-10-27T09:28:20+01:00

adam commented

2026-10-27 09:28:20 +01:00

I'm not sure if this is the right question for pyMC_Repeater or should it go to pyMC_Core issues but here we go…

I'm trying to set up a repeater on a "plain" Raspberry Pi Model 3B+ not a Pico Pi. The hat I use is this one:

https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/SX1262_868M_LoRa_HAT

I'm under impression it is a Waveshare SX1262 LoRa HAT that should work out-of-the box. But after looking at the schematics at

https://files.waveshare.com/upload/a/af/SX1268_LoRa_HAT_SchDoc.pdf

I'm not so sure – I do not see SPI control lines at all. Am I right?

Tl;dr – repeater software does not run and reports "radio is not initialised" errors while the demo software do work. I did enable SPI in kernel before running the service.

Do I use the wrong/unsupported hardware? The only information available over the YT or web lead to a Pico-shaped hat that looks different but share the same name.

I'm not sure if this is the right question for pyMC_Repeater or should it go to pyMC_Core issues but here we go… I'm trying to set up a repeater on a "plain" Raspberry Pi Model 3B+ not a Pico Pi. The hat I use is this one: https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/SX1262_868M_LoRa_HAT I'm under impression it is a Waveshare SX1262 LoRa HAT that should work out-of-the box. But after looking at the schematics at https://files.waveshare.com/upload/a/af/SX1268_LoRa_HAT_SchDoc.pdf I'm not so sure – I do not see SPI control lines at all. Am I right? Tl;dr – repeater software does not run and reports "radio is not initialised" errors while the demo software do work. I did enable SPI in kernel before running the service. Do I use the wrong/unsupported hardware? The only information available over the YT or web lead to a Pico-shaped hat that looks different but share the same name.

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2026-10-27 09:28:20 +01:00

adam commented

2026-10-27 09:28:21 +01:00

Unfortunately that's the UART version not SPI.

https://github.com/rightup/pyMC_Repeater/discussions/18

Unfortunately that's the UART version not SPI. https://github.com/rightup/pyMC_Repeater/discussions/18

adam commented

2026-10-27 09:28:22 +01:00

Seems so, TX/RX lines coming from LoRa module are strong hint for this. Thanks for clarifying.

Maybe information/warning should be added to README.md?

Seems so, TX/RX lines coming from LoRa module are strong hint for this. Thanks for clarifying. Maybe information/warning should be added to README.md?

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Reference: adam/pyMC_Repeater#9