Connect Board to Raspberry Pi(as gateway) and create mesh network using other raspberry pis(as nodes),nrf52 dk will be mediator between Pis.

[Drpandya]

Hi 

I am making mesh network using Raspberry pi and NRF52 DK. I install bluez 5 and meshctl on raspberry pi. I successfully connected nrf52 dk using bluetooth. I attached screen shot. Now, I want to create mesh network. my thought process is like this:- NRF52 kit will be mediator between mesh nodes and Raspberry pi. One Raspberry pi will be gateway to access data which will be coming from nodes. ( as per my knowledge, we can not make mesh network directly using raspberry pi.) I have 2 other rapsbeery pi to use like node. How i will do this?

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[Mttrinh]

Hi,

I suggest you have a look at this blog post.

[Drpandya]

Hi Mttrinh,Thank you for replying. I go through the blog you shared. there is deployment of Bluez5, I have already done that part. successfully. now i want to connect NRF kit with Rpi and Make mesh network using both Kit and Pi.

[Mttrinh]

I'm not entirely sure what you want to do. Could you give me a more detailed explanation for your use-case and what you are trying to do?

Do you want one RPi(gateway) to connect to nRF52-DK through bluetooth? And have the nRF52-DK run both Mesh and BLE, so it can relay data from the other two RPi's(mesh nodes) to the gateway?

If possible, maybe create a drawing of how the structure of the network is? 

[Drpandya]

Yes as you said. 

1. I want to use one Raspberry Pi as gateway. NRF52 kit will connect to RPi over Bluetooth.

2.I want to create mesh network on NRF52 kit. NRF52 Kit will communicate with the mesh nodes (i.e another 2 RPis) and send data to Gateway Rpi.

[Mttrinh]

Thanks, I think I got a better picture of what you are trying to do. We have in our Mesh SDK a coexistence example for the nRF52-DK, which let you both run UART over Bluetooth and Mesh at the same time. I think this is what you are looking for :)