Overview¶

ChirpCloud gives you your own ChirpStack tenant on a shared, managed deployment. Your workspace is ready within seconds, with a 14-day trial (no card), up to 50 devices and unlimited gateways.

Four steps take you from sign-up to live data:

1. Create your account and workspace in the portal.
2. Connect a gateway.
3. Create a device profile, then add the device to an application.
4. Get your data out with MQTT or another integration, or use the API with an API key.

How your data flows¶

flowchart LR
  D[Device] -- radio --> G[Gateway]
  G -- internet --> C[ChirpStack<br>on ChirpCloud]
  C -- MQTT, HTTP, … --> A[Your application]

• A device sends a small radio packet (an uplink). Any gateway in range picks it up, yours or another customer's.
• The gateway forwards it to ChirpCloud. It doesn't know or care which device it was.
• ChirpStack checks the packet belongs to one of your devices, decodes it with the device profile's codec and passes it to the device's application.
• The application delivers the event to your systems through an integration. Downlinks go the same way in reverse.

So you set up, in this order: a gateway (unless one nearby already covers you), a device profile, an application, the device, and an integration.

Where things live¶

All endpoints are listed in the reference.