Raspberry pi as mesh provisioner

Question

Hello, I am trying to use a PI3 as a provisioner for a bluetooth mesh network. 
 From my understanding,if I use interactive PyACI, I would need to plug a dev board to interact with my network. Is that assertion correct? 
 As I am in evaluation process, I have very few node available and I would like to use the built-in raspberrypi bluetooth on my network. 
 Therefore I could only use the meshctl utility. 
 But, I meet the following error: 
 
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 pi@raspberrypi:~/bluez-5.49$ meshctl
Waiting to connect to bluetoothd...Failed to parse local node configuration file local_node.json
pi@raspberrypi:~/bluez-5.49$ 
 
 I started from a fresh raspbian image and did the following: In order to enable the crypto configuration (see here: https://code4food.net/2017/11/25/enable ... -raspbian/ ), I recompiled the kernel following this tutorial : https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... uilding.md I installed Bluez utility version 5.49 using 
 
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 cd PATH_TO_BLUEZ
./configure --enable-mesh --enable-debug
make
sudo make install 
 
 as well as Json-c 
 
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 git clone github.com/.../json-c.git 
cd PATH_TO_JSON_C
sh autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install 
 
 Any idea of what I'm doing wrong? 
 Best regards, 
 Mickael

David Edwin · Answer

It will be far easier and cheaper for you to just get an additional DK board. The Bluez provisioner should work with the Mesh 2.0.0 release but the granularity of control will be lower. 
 You should be able to test the provisioner through pyACI if you have 2 nRF52-DK boards. (one board for the provisoner and one for the client/server). 
 Jlink is available for Rpi so that should work like a normal linux system. Use the "J-Link Software and Documentation pack for Linux ARM systems" on the segger website