About the provisioning beacon

[Jerry]

Hi guys,

I want to know whether the provisioning beacon can relay by the relay node or not?

If not, when the unprovisioned device's radio is not in the range of the provisioner, the only way to make the unprovisioned device to join the network is moving the unprovisioned device to nearly enough the provisioner, so that the provisioner can receive the provisioning beacon ?

[bjorn-spockeli]

Yes, our Bluetooth Mesh implementation supports Remote provisioning, see the quote from the Mesh Provisioning section of the nRF5 SDK for Bluetooth Mesh documentation, found here.

Remote provisioning (PB-Remote) allows a provisioner to provision devices outside its radio range. This is done by using mesh nodes to relay provisioning messages to a node within range of the device that is to be provisioned.

[Jerry]

Yes, this is so cool, but this (PB-Remote) is the standard protocol define by SIG?

[bjorn-spockeli]

No, this is a proprietary feature added by Nordic, i.e. its not a part of the Bluetooth Mesh Specification v1.0.

[Jerry]

OK，thanks : )

[bjorn-spockeli]

Happy to help! I would appreciate if you could mark the answer as correct/accepted by clicking the check mark in the grey circle to the left of the answer.

[MichaelNordicUser]

Is it possible for every device to be a provisioning device?