How to use nrF5 Ble joiner appication with raspberrypi 6lowpan enabled.

[sarthak]

i have a raspberry pi and wanted to connect it with nRF BLE joiner but it is not scanning my raspberry -pi 

[Stian Røed Hafskjold]

Did you follow the user guide? https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.sdk5.v15.3.0/iot_commissioning_phone_app.html?cp=5_0_5_5_2_1

[sarthak]

yes i followed the guide but i want to connect my raspberry-pi as a node. when using the ble joiner app it is not scanning my raspberry-pi as a node.

[Stian Røed Hafskjold]

The BLE joiner app is used to commission the IoT example applications running on the nRF52 to a RPi acting as a router.

When you say you want to connect your raspberry-pi as a node, I'm not sure what you mean. Do you want to connect your RPi to another RPi acting as router?

[sarthak]

yes i want to connect my raspberry pi to another raspberry-pi acting as a router. 1st raspberry pi as a node and 2nd raspberrypi as a edge router . can i use 1st raspberry- pi as a node insted of nRF5 to be connected to the edge router?

[Stian Røed Hafskjold]

Ok I see, so first on the RPi router you need to run a commissioning daemon. More info here: https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.sdk5.v15.3.0/iot_commissioning_daemon.html?cp=5_0_5_5_2_0

The on the node you will have to set up the BLE commissioning profile which is what the BLE joiner app is scanning for. More info here: https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.sdk5.v15.3.0/lib_iot_commissioning.html?cp=5_0_3_24_1_3

Documentation for the library is located here: https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.sdk5.v15.3.0/iot_commissioning_transport.html?cp=5_0_3_24_1_3_0

And the actual library can be found in the SDK. So this library is what you will have to port to your RPi. This is probably not a trivial task. Depends on how much experience you have with custom BLE profiles running on Linux.

Since RPi is supporting WiFi/Ethernet I would suggest to use this instead when communicating between the two. Not sure why you would want to set up a 6lowpan over BLE between two RPi's

[sarthak]

Stian Røed Hafskjold said:

Depends on how much experience you have with custom BLE profiles running on Linux.

so what i understand is that on 1 raspberry-pi i have to run a deamon for commissioning on linux , that i can do and then i have the 2nd raspberry-pi to which i have to port the library. 

i have no experience with custom BLE profiles running on Linux. how to port the library and run the custom BLE profile?