Zigbee not meshing

[inv4]

Hi I have two zigbee routers running the light bulb example, the thing is that it seems as they are not forming a mesh, Im doing the following:

1. Pair lightbulb 1 with coordinator (it works)

2. Pair lightbulb 2 which is out of reach of coordinator but within reach of lightbulb 1

It doesn't pairs, I've changed the power source to ZB_ZCL_BASIC_POWER_SOURCE_MAINS_SINGLE_PHASE, and doesn't changes a thing.

Should the example be able to mesh?

[Edvin]

Hello,

I am not sure whether what you ask is possible. I have to check. But first, does it work if bulb2 is in range with the coordinator?

[inv4]

Hi, if I place bulb2 in range of the zigbee coordinator it works as expected.

What do you mean you don't know if this is possible, isn't it the point of a mesh network no be able to repeat messages through out the mesh?

[Edvin]

Hello,

Sorry for the late reply. 

Can you please try to capture a sniffer trace of the issue you are seeing? If you place a sniffer near the lightbulb 1 it should be able to pick up the packets from all the nodes. You can use the 802.15.4 sniffer from infocenter.

Can you capture a sniffer trace from both the scenarios? Both when lightbulb 2 is in range with the coordinator and when it is not? And please remember to have the sniffer close to lightbulb 1 so that it picks up all the packets.

Best regards,

Edvin

[inv4]

For programming Im using a BMD-340 DK and I cant get the sniffer interface to show on wireshark, I dont know if its because of this. Is there anything else I can try? Smartthings uses HA 1.2 and nrf uses zigbee 3.0, is there any adjustments to make this work?, I mean the can directly pair to the hub bot not on a star mesh, which is the main advantage of using zigbee.

[Edvin]

Are all the devices the examples from our SDK? Or do you have external devices? It is really hard to say why it isn't working without a sniffer trace. There are 3rd party sniffers on the market as well. I don't know whether HA1.2 and zigbee 3.0 is a clash, but I will have to forward the sniffer trace to our zigbee team in order to say for sure.

Best regards,

Edvin