BLE Central and Mesh

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Hi, I want to implement a system in which a thingy:53 will scan for beacons, gets their RSSI value and publishes them to a mesh network using custom models. 
 Then I want to use a RPi 4B to get these values and publish them to a cloud. Can anyone guide me and let me know where I should start and steps to follow. 
 Regards, Jeason

AHaug · Accepted Answer

Hi, 
 I've discussed this with the Mesh team. 
 First of, the stop scan is necessary as you can't start another scanning since the Mesh stack already has one ongoing. This is the reason for why you need to stop it using bt_scan_stop(). 
 The second thing is that we have another option for you. Rather than configuring the device as a Mesh + BLE central, you can register another callback using bt_le_scan_cb_register and read the RSSI value from the struct bt_le_scan_recv_info structure. 
 In addition using acceptance filters you will create conflicts in the Mesh 
 So in other words, unless you specifically need BLE Central features, this other option is what we recommend 
 Kind regards, Andreas

BLE Central and Mesh

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