Adding functionality to the Nordic Thingy Mesh Demo; enabling nodes to send to each other.

[Jan]

Hi all,

I'm currently working on adapting this example to fit my needs for testing a Bluetooth Mesh network. 

I want to add the functionality for nodes to send to each other (in the example, only the bridge can send to nodes).

I want the nodes to send to a hardcoded address from the other nodes without an acknowledge. I am wondering if I need a new model for this functionality. 

I have tried a few things but I keep getting errors from the underlying libraries so I could use some pointers on what steps to take in order to achieve this. 

Many thanks in advance!

Jan

[Jan]

Hi,

I'm building this mesh network for my graduation internship with which I can test the throughput for different configurations and network sizes. 

Therefore, a laptop will configure the nodes to send to one of the other nodes via the proxy/bride nodes once the nodes receive the "start test" command. Ideally, I would like the configure method to simple have one address which the node can store and simply send to. Because of the fact that a lot of different test cases need to be done. It would be ideal if the address to send to can be easily adapted by a configure method from the proxy. 

I hope this will shed some light on my goal, any tips are very welcome. 

Best regards, 

Jan 

[Jan]

Hi,

I managed to get it working. All the nodes can be configured to send to one of the other nodes with just one model. I don't know if I am doing everything the "official" way but this working version is fine for my testing purposes!

Thanks for your insight!