Provision non proxy examples BLE Mesh

RE: Provision non proxy examples BLE Mesh

Hung Bui — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:26:40 GMT

Hi Milogic,

1. Correct, if a node wants to be provisioned by a phone it needs to have proxy role. However, it's possible to configure a note remotely via another proxy note. Configuration is a normal mesh operation when provisioning requires PB-GATT and it has to be direct connection between the node and the phone.

2. What do you mean by "easier" ? When it's advertising as a proxy node or unprovisioned node that has proxy support, any phone or tablet can discovery and connect to it. After it get provisioned it can turn off the proxy role and works as a normal mesh node. Note that the speaker doesn't support mesh and can't be provisioned.

RE: Provision non proxy examples BLE Mesh

Milogic — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 14:11:24 GMT

Hi,

I think I understand now. And I got all the examples to work.

Just a check if my understanding is correct:

- When you want to use a phone/tablet (gatt) for provisioning, all modules must support a proxy_server to be able to provision them via the phone/tablet.
- When a proxy_server is used, they will be easier to discover by any phone/tablet? So I want to bind with a BT speaker in a building that has BT mesh lighting, I see my speaker and 10 other (light) nodes that are in direct range. But may be the nodes can be hidden when they are successfully provisioned?

My misunderstanding was (if I'm correct), that I thought you needed one proxy node to be able to access/provision a complete network. Which is not the case...

Am I correct?

Regards

RE: Provision non proxy examples BLE Mesh

Hung Bui — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:20:40 GMT

Maybe you should read the documentation first ? Please have a look here , and here is some articles about provisioning . But I guess the best source is the Bluetooth Mesh specification.

So basically there are 2 type of provisioning, one is PB-ADV provisioning via adverting bearer, and PB-GATT provisioning via GATT connection. PB-GATT is what you did with the phone and the proxy examples, for other examples you need to use PB-ADV.