'Pinging'

[Rorisang]

Hi. I managed to set up a mesh  (Thread) using 9 nodes of the nRF52840 SoCs. I am currently using Putty to send commands and pings between the nodes. What i need now is a way to access and command a specific node (say, node1) to send a group of pings to another node (say, node8). I will be setting up the nodes in a building environment. I prefer to be able to command the nodes from, say my desktop (maybe via an extra node (=node10) connected to the PC via USB). How may i do this? I do not intend to walk around the building pushing buttons on the individual nodes nor carrying my PC around.

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

Do I understand you correctly that you want to send a command to a Thread node (over the Thread network) to tell it to ping some other node in the network?

I'm not aware of any such functionality in the examples, but you should be able to implement this using CoAP server examples. When writing to a CoAP resource, use the received information to perform a ping in the handler. You can send CoAP messages directly from CLI node, see coap documentation.

Best regards,
Jørgen

[Rorisang]

Hi. Sorry for the late reply. Yes, i intend to send a command to a Thread node and tell it to ping another node that will be in the mesh. I need to be able to do this remotely from my PC.

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Then the solution I suggested in my first answer is the way to go. We do not have any ready-made examples for doing this.