Here is the flow of data:
- End Device (dragino temp sensor)
- RAK LoRaWAN gateway
- RAK MQTT packet forwarder
- HA MQTT broker
- Node-RED MQTT topic listener
- Nore-RED fPort filter
- Node-RED function to decode payload
- Node-RED sensor entity
- HA dashboard
All these elements need to be installed into Home Assistant.
The RAK gateway forwards nicely to Home Assistant. It’s a WISgate RAK7268V2
I started with a Milesight gateway and could not get it to forward vie MQTT to Home Assistant.