nRF Mesh Provisioner Android app support for nRF52840

[gordie]

Hi, I was hoping someone could tell me if/when a version of the nRF Mesh Android App found here:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Nordic-mobile-Apps/nRF-Mesh

Will support provide support for the nRF52840 light switch examples?

I understand that it is an early alpha release, maybe if an official release wont be provided - someone could point me in the right direction as to the changes I would need to make to allow the app to work with the nRF52840 examples of the light switch example in the mesh sdk.

Thanks 

[Mttrinh]

Hi,

There are already support for nRF52840 light switch example. You should be able to use nRF Mesh to provision the proxy examples found in examples/light_switch/proxy_xxxx.

[gordie]

Hi Thanks for the reply.

Could you summarize what the difference petween the proxy and regular light switch examples are? I have created a project based on the regular light switch examples and would to get an idea of how much extra code it would be for my existing project to work as proxy.

[Mttrinh]

The proxy example applications has the same behavior as the regular light switch examples, but additionally has the proxy role enabled. With the proxy role enabled, the node will have the ability to receive and retransmit mesh messages between GATT and advertising bearers. You can read more about this under Light switch server(Proxy server).

[gordie]

Ah I see. Due to it having proxy enabled, this would add extra current consumption yes?

[Mttrinh]

Yes, a higher power consumption would be expected.