Simultaneous Heart beat receiving in a BLE mesh with nRF52840 nodes

RE: Simultaneous Heart beat receiving in a BLE mesh with nRF52840 nodes

stefanogradozzi — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:45:27 GMT

Thank you for your answer.

Best regards

RE: Simultaneous Heart beat receiving in a BLE mesh with nRF52840 nodes

tesc — Tue, 27 May 2025 11:04:53 GMT

Hi,

No. You cannot receive heartbeats concurrently from multiple sources. You can subscribe to heartbeat messages from one (and only one) node at the time. If you want to diagnose the network properties against multiple devices, then you must do so sequentially.

Regards,
Terje

RE: Simultaneous Heart beat receiving in a BLE mesh with nRF52840 nodes

stefanogradozzi — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:46:58 GMT

Hi,

ok, but as I wrote before, I'm interested to know if there is a manner to receive Heart beat messages from more than one node at the same time, that is the time interval defined during subscription (for example, can I receive heartbeat messages from 3 nodes simultaneously during a unique interval of, let's say, 32sec?).

Regards

RE: Simultaneous Heart beat receiving in a BLE mesh with nRF52840 nodes

tesc — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:12:25 GMT

Hi,

[quote user=""]Till now I have understood that, in the the Heart beat communication procedure, the destination node (a gateway in my case) can receive only a source node at a time (that is the source node described during subscription).[/quote]

That is correct. Heartbeats are received from one given node, and statistics are gathered for the heartbeat packets from that particular node, throughout the subscription period. See Heartbeat for details.

Regards,
Terje