When and how is possible to use smartphone as a Provisioner to BLE Mesh?

[PopradiArpad]

Hi,

The questions:

1. When is PB-GATT expected to land in the SDK for Mesh?

2. What are the best Andorid/iOS example apps to act as provisioner and network configurator?

Thanks

[Abhay Joshi]

You can use the example from Apache-Mynewt which supports both PB-ADV and PB-GATT. (www.codecoup.pl/.../)

You can use meshctl which is included in the latest release of Linux BlueZ stack if you wish to provision using your PC.

Silicon Labs provides an application which can used for Provisioning Devices over PB-GATT (play.google.com/.../details

[Ashish]

Hi Abhay !!!

Does this firmware from Apache-Mynewt for bluetooth mesh, retains its provisioning and configuration details after reset?

[Abhay Joshi]

The provisioning and configuration details for the mesh network will be retained by the nodes. It should be able to join the network. 

The provisioner in this case is the Mobile Application from Silicon Labs which doesn't store any details after the app is closed. So, the network would still exist but the PB-GATT (Proxy) you are using to communicate with the network will be no longer operational. Silicon Labs might release an updated version of their app which incorporates the storing functionality as it's still in the beta version.