Hello,
I work in a startup, and we aim to measure cooling conditions in data centers.
For that, we have developed customs boards with a nRF52840, and we are using Bluetooth Mesh to connect them. They have one custom model which sends data every 2 minutes. As gateway, we use a pca10040 board (we have also tried with a pac10056, with same result) connected to a computer. We have built an application on top of the PyACI, and we are using the serial firmware needed by PyACI on the pca10040. We aim to deploy hundreds or even thousands of devices for each data center.
In our tests, we can provision as many nodes as we want, but when we try to receive the data, we encounter that we can only receive data from 32 nodes. If we provision more than 32 nodes, the 32 nodes from which we receive data are random, and change every time we reset the gateway. By contrast, using the sniffer firmware in that same pca10040 board, we are able to see the data from all the provisioned nodes. This make us think that the problem could be with the serial firmware. We are using SDK 15.0.0 and SDK for Mesh 2.0.1.
Are there any known limitations in the number of nodes one gateway using PyACI can handle? Or any idea to overcome this limitation?
Thanks in advance.
