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Control Mesh devices from outside the mesh network

Hi, is it possible to control mesh devices from outside the network ? My idea is to control the light servers inside mesh network via the user interface provided by Home Automation platform running on Raspberry Pi. That means the Home Automation platform would be client which is outside of mesh network.

1. One approach I could think of was to use Raspberry Pi itself as both provisioner and client, and automate the provisioning with PyACL. Pi would be connected via J-Link to DK board (inside mesh network) running Serial example from documentation. So, the DK board would act as gateway on the Pi side and relay for the mesh network. How feasible is this setup with the available tools and SDK ?

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2. I know this isn't directly related to Nordic Semiconductor. Still, is it possible to use bluez insted of PyACL ? There's an example on PyACL under the Mesh SDK 2.1.1 documentation but couldn't find anything on bluez. 

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