Can I connect BLE devices to local servers though the nRF Cloud Gateway App (directly)?

[Luiz Duarte]

Hi,

I'm developing a smartwatch that relies on low latency communication with local web servers. I'm in the very begining but I'm sure that the latency added between the "nRF Cloud Gateway App" and local servers in Brazil will be proibitive, since the packets need to pass trought your "nRF Cloud Server" in Europe.

- Can consume the gateway app Rest APIs from local servers directly?

- The "nRF Cloud Gatway App" source code will be available for customizations? 

Regards,

Luiz

[Bjørn Kvaale]

Hi Luiz, 

Can consume the gateway app Rest APIs from local servers directly?

Do you want the gateway to connect to your own local server instead of the nRF Cloud server? Or have I misunderstood the question?

Here is the nRF Cloud Gateway source code. 

[Luiz Duarte]

Yes, it is. Can I connect the gateway to local my local server?

[Bjørn Kvaale]

I am not too sure about this. I will ask internally & get back to you.

If you do not want to use a mobile phone as the gateway & instead using a Raspberry Pi, you can take a look at this link for more info.

[Markus Tacker (he/him)]

Yes, you can have the Gateway send messages to any other MQTT server. You can find information how the communication works here: https://github.com/nRFCloud/gateway-cordova/blob/a70b724015ebf34433f0cabdd1a49d39df8f35e4/docs/connecting.md

But your local server needs to implement the logic for controlling the gateway also, and we have not yet open-sourced this.

So in your case I would take the examples on how to connect to a peripheral from the gateway source code and implement your own communication scheme with your endpoint.

[Luiz Duarte]

Tankyou, that's it!