I am developing mesh beacon on battery operated nrf52832

RE: I am developing mesh beacon on battery operated nrf52832

Mttrinh — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:05:11 GMT

Yes, you won't be able to send messages between the devices if you don't provision them into the mesh network.

The thingy mesh demo is using the nRF Mesh SDK so there aren't any differences. You can have battery operated mesh nodes like the thingy, depending on your use-case it might work for you. But since the mesh nodes listen for incoming packets most of the time, the power consumption might be higher than you want.

RE: I am developing mesh beacon on battery operated nrf52832

ud23 — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 07:47:08 GMT

Ok fine so without provisioning I can't use Beacon example.Means if I Programmed 5 board with mesh beaconing code they wont transfer beacon data in mesh right.

I will look the lpn and friendship feature.

And Nordic thingy have mesh which is operated on battery and its working good so any difference in thingy and sdk mesh I guess both uses mesh SIG right

RE: I am developing mesh beacon on battery operated nrf52832

Mttrinh — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:20:29 GMT

[quote user="ud23"]DC Dc mode not working both in main() and inti() function[/quote]

Do you get any errors?

[quote user="ud23"]How can I Change mesh advertising time to 5 sec ?[/quote]

Yes, you can change the parameters in the nrf_mesh_config_bearer.h header file. Note: The minimum advertising interval is set by default to 20ms. If you set it lower than that, you might get bad interference between nodes.

An additional comment on battery operated mesh nodes, mesh is not meant to be used for battery powered devices at the moment. That is because mesh nodes must listen for incoming packets most of the time. Therefore, the radio will be on quite a lot, making it infeasible to make this device battery operated. You do have low power nodes and friendship feature, that you can have a look at.

RE: I am developing mesh beacon on battery operated nrf52832

ud23 — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 05:01:49 GMT

DC Dc mode not working both in main() and inti() function.

How can I Change mesh advertising time to 5 sec ?

Any other way to reduce the power in mesh code.

RE: I am developing mesh beacon on battery operated nrf52832

Mttrinh — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:03:14 GMT

Hi,

You can use use Interactive PyACI(Take a look at "Interactive mesh provisioning and configuration") or you could modify the Light switch provisioning example.

You can enable the DC-DC by calling the function in main.

Have a look at this regarding what you can consider to reduce power usage.