Pretend to be the hub: testing a LoRa node in isolation

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A node was dropping off the mesh intermittently. The obvious move — pull it, bring it to the bench, test it against the hub — wasn’t available. The hub was live, serving the rest of the site, and pulling that would have taken half the network down with it. So I didn’t. I became the hub.

This is Emulate mode in LoRaScope, and it’s the fastest way I know to test a node without disturbing the network it lives in.

Emulation on LoRaScope — Spectrum & Traffic Analyser

Pretend to be the hub: testing a LoRa node in isolation