Ble Mesh : will it be ported to linux

RE: Ble Mesh : will it be ported to linux

bjorn-spockeli — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:36:59 GMT

Hi Mahendra,

the linux references are artifacts from early development and/or for unit testing purposes.

So no, as far as I know there are no plans for porting the Nordic Bluetooth Mesh stack to Linux.

Best regards

Bjørn

RE: Ble Mesh : will it be ported to linux

Mahendra Tailor — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:12:01 GMT

The only thing preventing that from happening is the source code licence. Which states ...

This software, with or without modification, must only be used with a Nordic Semiconductor ASA integrated circuit.

RE: Ble Mesh : will it be ported to linux

Mahendra Tailor — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:09:50 GMT

Given the Nordic Ble Mesh in the SDK is provided as source code, theoretically it is possible to run it on linux, and the softdevice calls can be emulated via a shim.

So one could end up with a Ble Mesh on a Linux machine that is functionaly identical to the one running on an nrf5x as long as the BLE hardware is 4.0 compliant.

Even the PB-GATT could be emulated by chaining on to the Bluez stack

RE: Ble Mesh : will it be ported to linux

Turbo J — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:02:55 GMT

We have literally no idea what you are talking about...