How to connect android/iOS app in the mesh network without GATT server

[Anaya]

Hello,

I am developing an app which connect to provisioned node using GATT in the mesh network. But the limitation of this is, it has only pair to pair communication. It is creating problem in getting acknowledgements from other nodes in the network.

So that, instead of this I want to connect my app directly to the network using mesh.

How can I achieve this? Is it possible in android and iOS  app?

Thank you.

Regards,

Anaya

[Mttrinh]

Hi,

If I understood this correctly, you can connect your phone to the mesh via a proxy link(using the proxy feature). The light switch example in our SDK supports the proxy feature by default, you can test it out with our nRF Mesh app for iOS/Android. I also suggest you have a look at the source code(iOS/Android) for the app.

[Mttrinh]

Hi,

Smartphones don't support Bluetooth Mesh protocol directly so you won't be able to provision smartphones into the network as a mesh node. As of now our examples only supports one proxy connection, but it is possible to connect multiple phones to a single proxy node. You will need to implement this feature yourself though.

[Mttrinh]

I haven't tested this myself but it should be possible. You would need to do some modifications to the example to make it work. 

Unfortunately, we don't have any guides or examples available.

[Anaya]

Mttrinh said:

As of now our examples only supports one proxy connection, but it is possible to connect multiple phones to a single proxy node.

As per your suggestion, what should I do with node and phone to support multiple proxy connections?

Please guide me.

[Anaya]

Hello Mttrinh,

Any update please?

I am waiting for your reply.

[Mttrinh]

Hi,

I have forwarded this to our Mesh team, I will come back to you with an update.

[Anaya]

Thank you so much for reply.

I am waiting for a positive update on this issue.

Thank you.

Regards!