BLE Mesh Range

RE: BLE Mesh Range

Marjeris Romero — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 08:46:21 GMT

Hi,

Just to add some more information about how to make your own propietary solution. There is a ticket here about how to change the PHY in mesh that may be useful for you. It's old but you can still take a look at it and I recommend you make a new ticket if problems arises.

Just remember a propietary solution will not be complient with "BLE mesh", as explained above.

-Marjeris

RE: BLE Mesh Range

awneil — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:26:10 GMT

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RE: BLE Mesh Range

Urvisha Andani — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:21:25 GMT

Thanks for the insite, looks like proprietary variant is the way ahead :)

RE: BLE Mesh Range

awneil — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 23:23:54 GMT

[quote userid="75795" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/49371/ble-mesh-range"]In Mesh Mode are Le Phy coded configuration are available[/quote]

As Marjeris Romero said, The Bluetooth SIG specifies BLE Mesh to use BLE 4.0 - so you can't use BLE 5 features if you want to be compliant with the standard.

Of course, if standards compliance is not important to you, there's nothing to stop you developing your own proprietary variant ...

But you would not be allowed to call it, "BLE Mesh"

RE: BLE Mesh Range

Marjeris Romero — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 15:35:50 GMT

Hi,

1) BLE mesh is based on BLE 4.0. It is compatible with BLE 4.0 and higher (this includes BLE 5.0) but does not implement any features of BLE 5.0. You won't be able to use 2Mbit and Coded PHY with Mesh, as these are BLE 5.0 features. The Bluetooth mesh speficication is defined by the Bluetooth SIG group and can be downloaded here.

2) The max transmit power will depend on which SoC you choose. The max transmit power for the nRF52840 is +8dBm. For the nRF52832 is +4dBm.

3) As I said, coded PHY is a BLE 5.0 feature and is not implemented in the BLE mesh specification.

And if you want more information about our BLE mesh solution have a look a these pages for more information:

Basic Bluetooth Mesh concepts

nRF5 SDK for Mesh architecture

Best Regards,

Marjeris