Is any mobile nRF Mesh visualizer available?

[Matthew K]

Hi guys.

I'm using the nRF Mesh LED example and I'm using my Android/iOS phone as a provisioner. After provisioning, I was curious whether the phone can visually represent the provisioned devices from the phone.

Is this possible or is there any example related to this? (Showing RSSI strength, approximately how far the device is spread from each other, etc)

When the nRF Thread was demonstrated in the past,

https://youtu.be/2U8KE_FdsqU

there was this graph looking representation so I was curious whether this is available when using the Mesh.

[Hung Bui]

Hi Matthew, 

Unlike routed mesh, there is no routing table in mesh to create a topology graph as in Thread.  

The provisioner wouldn't know which node is active if the nodes don't send heart beat message. 

You can build a list of active node and the distance between nodes using heartbeat. Bluetooth Mesh spec define how the heart beat be sent, but what you want to do with it to detect how far nodes are from each other (based on RSSI) or to create an active list of node is upto the application. 

We don't have an example on this. 

[Matthew K]

Hung Bui said:

The provisioner wouldn't know which node is active if the nodes don't send heart beat message. 

Thank you, Hung Bui. Are there methods/functions from the nRF Mesh mobile APIs? Or is this a thing I have to do it by myself? After that, I will try it and close this question.

[Hung Bui]

No, I don't think nRFMesh mobile apps has any feature to support heartbeat. You would need to implement on your own.