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]

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.

[PopradiArpad]

Thank you Abhay!

Is Apache-Mynewt Bluetooth certified on nRF52832 SoC (QDID)?

Can I use JLink as debug probe?

Which IDE is the best for it? Currently I use Segger Embedded Studio.

Thanks

[Bartek]

Hello,

You can find mesh certified products/stacks here. It seems there is not ApacheMynewt there.

I am using JLink probe and Eclipse IDE (development-with-gcc-and-eclipse) and I am happy with that.

[PopradiArpad]

Thanks bkling! Especially for the eclipse link.

[Monroe]

Hi Bjørn,

are there any new information about the provisioning application? I´d like to set up a Bluetooth Mesh with nrf52840PDK boards and use my smartphone as a provisioner. Unfortunately i cant find a usefull provisioning-app skeleton.

I´ve managed to run the example from Apache-Mynewt (https://www.codecoup.pl/blog/bluetooth-mesh-on-apache-mynewt/) and would like to recieve Data from Mesh nodes on my Smartphone.