How to Provision Beaconing Example from nRF5SDK_Mesh2.2.0 SDK and how to test the mesh functionality with Beaconing example?

RE: How to Provision Beaconing Example from nRF5SDK_Mesh2.2.0 SDK and how to test the mesh functionality with Beaconing example?

Hung Bui — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:07:49 GMT

nRF Mesh mobile application only support node with proxy feature. You can think of adding proxy into the beacon example. Or the otherway around adding the beacon feature (very simple) into the proxy light switch example.

When you testing please make sure you can do UART communication with the board (test with SDK v15 Uart example). And make sure you have flashed the mesh serial firmware to the DK.

RE: How to Provision Beaconing Example from nRF5SDK_Mesh2.2.0 SDK and how to test the mesh functionality with Beaconing example?

satish — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 08:53:29 GMT

Hi Hung Bui I tried the above mentioned solutions also but still i'm getting the same timeout error,attached

the screenshot for your reference.

Is there any other way to provision the device that contains the beaconing example in it, without provisioning mesh will not work right?

nRF Mesh mobile application also not recognizing the mesh beaconing device ,it should work as a generic provisioner right?

Please help me,thanks.

RE: How to Provision Beaconing Example from nRF5SDK_Mesh2.2.0 SDK and how to test the mesh functionality with Beaconing example?

shrinivas — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:36:24 GMT

Ok, so to make my beacons work in a relay node mesh to advertise data packets, what changes should i focus on in the example code ?

pleased by your help hung bui.

thanks in advance

RE: How to Provision Beaconing Example from nRF5SDK_Mesh2.2.0 SDK and how to test the mesh functionality with Beaconing example?

Hung Bui — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:25:30 GMT

Each application would require the provisioner to be customized for it (for example which group address the node should subscribe to, how many app key , etc ) Please study the node_setup.c and provisioner_helper.c
You can also use the generic provisioner, but that would require human interaction (or you can make a script) .

RE: How to Provision Beaconing Example from nRF5SDK_Mesh2.2.0 SDK and how to test the mesh functionality with Beaconing example?

Hung Bui — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:20:21 GMT

Please try again with the nRF52 board restarted. Occasionally I saw the same issue happened. But before that please verify that the PyACI can communicate properly by following this guide and this guide

RE: How to Provision Beaconing Example from nRF5SDK_Mesh2.2.0 SDK and how to test the mesh functionality with Beaconing example?

satish — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:40:24 GMT

@Hung Bui

I tried the second option that is PyACI as a generic provisioner from a PC by following the guide here. and i got the below error

In [3]: p = Provisioner(device, db)

In [4]: 2018-11-21 14:03:40,848 - INFO - COM13: cmd KeypairSet, timeout waiting for event
2018-11-21 14:03:42,850 - INFO - COM13: cmd AddrLocalUnicastSet, timeout waiting for event
2018-11-21 14:03:44,853 - INFO - COM13: cmd SubnetAdd, timeout waiting for event

2018-11-21 14:03:46,855 - INFO - COM13: cmd AppkeyAdd, timeout waiting for event
2018-11-21 14:03:48,858 - INFO - COM13: cmd AppkeyAdd, timeout waiting for event

RE: How to Provision Beaconing Example from nRF5SDK_Mesh2.2.0 SDK and how to test the mesh functionality with Beaconing example?

shrinivas — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 06:45:46 GMT

Hi hung bui,

I have a question, what changes should do i need to do in the node_setup.c and provisioner_helper.c to provision beaconing device because they are the provisioner for light_switch example only right ? my doubt is that i need to provision my beacons to make the nodes talk as a relay mesh. my goal is to make the beacons to communicate in relay mesh. what should i do ?

thanks in advance

RE: How to Provision Beaconing Example from nRF5SDK_Mesh2.2.0 SDK and how to test the mesh functionality with Beaconing example?

Hung Bui — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:16:00 GMT

Hi Satish,

The provisioner in light switch example was customized for light switch application. It only looking for devices with UUID that matches with light switch client and server. And the configuration is also customized for that application.

If you want the provisioner to provision your beacon example, you would need to modify the provisioner and the node_setup.c and the provisioner_helper.c to match with your application.

Another option is to use PyACI as a generic provisioner from a PC. You can provision and configure anything you want with the PyACI. Please follow the guide here.