Create GUI to interact with Nordic Thingy Mesh Demo

[The Boon]

Hello dear Nordic Developer and Hobbyists,

first of all I would like to thank the developer team for the nice mesh demo. It functioned well and explicates the concepts of Bluetooth mesh in an easy and nice way. I had run the demo and also editted the codes to test it in localization with RSSI.

Now I wish to create an interface (GUI), at which the users can see how the whole thing is running. As I planned to place the Thingys (nodes) quite far apart, the interaction on a GUI is quite convenient. I hope to show on an interface how the light on each nodes being turned on. Previously I had worked with Model-View-ViewModel of Window Presentation Foundation (WPF).

My question is, since the mesh demo is coded in the environment of SEGGER Embedded Studio for ARM. How can I bind an interface to it? I did not managed to find a similar software like WPF for Segger Embedded Studio. Or should I convert the codes in SES so that I can function with WPF (in XAML) and Visual Studio (in C#)?

Had anyone done this before? Your help and insights are pretty much appreciated.

Thank you for your concern!

Best regards,

[Bjørn Kvaale]

Are you referring to a GUI that is similar to the thread topology monitor? We do have an interactive python script that acts as the provisioner on the PC side. You could then create some kind of GUI above the python script. Otherwise, we do have some kind of frameworks so that you can create your own app in nRF Connect for Desktop. I believe that is coded in C#. You could then have the app be a GUI & do the provisioning on a DK in the mesh network. You would need some kind of serial connection from the computer to a development kit. You may be able to use the serial example from the mesh stack, but that may require a bit of work.

In my opinion, it might be easiest to start with interactive python & try to create a GUI above that.

[The Boon]

Exactly.I hope to create a similar model of thread but for Bluetooth mesh. I see. The interactive python script use a serial interface for configuration. That would be a great start for me. 

Thank you so much for the useful Infos Bjorn!

[The Boon]

Hello Bjorn, I still have a question:

How can we connect Thingy with UART? is the communication via J-Link / nRF52 Board with SWD wire sufficient for the interactive python script?