Bluetooth mesh devices behaviour

[Artur]

Hi all,

I am investigating Mesh SDK and interoperability between devices.

We have bought some Hytronik devices which are qualified with Bluetooth. 

Strange thing is that I can configure Hytronik devices only from Hytronik app and nRF devices only form nRF app.

Shouldnt it be standarized?

Best regards

[tesc]

Hi,

Bluetooth mesh is standardized, yes, so if your devices support Bluetooth mesh you should be able to provision them into the network.

Note that there are two "bearer" layers to choose from for provisioning; one is the GATT bearer (which we use in the nRF Mesh smartphone app) and the other one is the ADV bearer (which we use for our provisioner examples running on an nRF board.) It may be that the devices do not support the same provisioning bearer.

While there is a similar concept of bearers for participation in a Bluetooth mesh network as well, it is enough to have one node with the "GATT proxy" feature enabled for allowing GATT devices (such as smartphones) to connect to the network and then communicate with any other node.

Some models are specified by the Bluetooth SIG, such as "generic on/off", but it is also possible to make custom, vendor specific models. If the devices that you have are using vendor specific models, the tools for configuring those models are probably only looking for those vendor specific models. Likewise, in our nRF Mesh app we have support for a few SIG defined models. It is difficult to say for sure what is the case for your setup, without more information about the devices.

Regards,
Terje