Bluetooth Mesh Samples and Smartphone connection

RE: Bluetooth Mesh Samples and Smartphone connection

MkBab — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:58:20 GMT

Hi Hung,
Thank you for your advice, i am now using the nRF SDK v2.8.0 (have not tested the v2.9.0), and most of the time it is working as expected, I just had to restart my phone once, as something went wrong with the connection.

Referring to your first suggestion, before changing the SDK, I was able to see the Mesh devices in the nRF Mesh app, but could only connect once per device. After connecting and disconnecting from a device, i could only see the N/A Bluetooth Mesh devices and not the actual (in my case Mesh light) nodes.

Thank you for your help :)

RE: Bluetooth Mesh Samples and Smartphone connection

Hung Bui — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:03:28 GMT

Hi Mika,
You can try using nRF Connect app to scan for advertising packet to see if you can see the device advertise as Mesh Proxy (connectable mesh device).

I would suggest to try testing with the nRF Connect SDK stable version v2.9.0.

RE: Bluetooth Mesh Samples and Smartphone connection

MkBab — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:26:10 GMT

Hi Hung,
Thank you for your fast reply, I am using the zephyr sdk version 0.16.8, the nrf Connect SDK v2.9.99 and working with this VsCode docker: github.com/.../vscode-nordic-template

I will update the zephyr version to 0.17.0, as my docker indicates it as required and the 0.16.8 version as out-dated.

Reading the proxy state works btw, after clicking read state, it displays read state OFF.

Next wednesday, i will let you know, if updating the sdk fixed the issue, as i am then working on this project again.

RE: Bluetooth Mesh Samples and Smartphone connection

Hung Bui — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:59:29 GMT

Hi Mika,
I'm also suspecting that the Proxy setting has been disabled.
Could you let me know which SDK version you are using ?
Please be noted that when you use nRF Mesh app and try to read Proxy State , after you click READ STATE, it shloud show "READ STATE OFF" . This mean the Proxy state is ON and you can click OFF to turn it OFF.
If you see READ STATE ON , then it means the proxy feature is turned off.