LPN without friend node

[Gerry]

Hi,

We have one client/provisioner and multiple servers/provisionees (light switch style) in our mesh network.

Now we plan to have a LPN-sensor node (server as above) in that network without using friend-nodes.

The sensor should wake up once every minute, send a message to the client, stay up for 5 sec. and then sleep again.

1. What changes to the server would be necessary to achieve that?

2. Is it possible to use LPN without friend-nodes?

regards

Gerry

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Hi. 

Got a tip from one of my colleagues. He suggested that you might be able to solve this by having your node advertise as a regular BLE-beacon and having some nodes in the mesh network listening for the beacon advertisment. 

You can take a look at the Enocean example in our nRF5 SDK for Mesh, which does something like this. 

EDIT: Updated documentation link:  
https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.meshsdk.v3.1.0/md_examples_enocean_switch_README.html?cp=5_1_3_1 

Best regards, 
Joakim Jakobsen. 

[aaronxu]

Hi,

Your documentation has moved? could you kindly update that link?

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Thanks for letting me know!
Updated my previous answer. 

Best regards.