BLE Mesh with NRF dongle for Raspberry Pi

[Gecko]

Hi 

I have 1 PCA10040 dev kit and 1 Raspberry Pi 3.

If I connect NRF dongle to Raspberry Pi will Raspberry Pi act as mesh-node  ?

All I want to do is send data from PCA10040 dev kit to raspberry pi via BLE Mesh.

Thanks in advance.

[Hung Bui]

Hei Gecko, 

Could you let me know which NRF Dongle you are using ? 
We have the serial firmware (\examples\serial) that you can interface with the R-Pi via UART. 

On the R-Pi you can either run your own UART program or use python as described here.

[Gecko]

I am planning to use NRF52840 dongle.
Do you mean I should load serial program to R-PI via UART from NRF Dev kit ?

Will that enable mesh in the R-PI ?

To clear my doubt,All I want is Gateway(R-PI) with mesh enabled.Right now R-Pi has only bluetooth and not Mesh.

[Hung Bui]

On the R-Pi there are 2 options. 

Option A is to use the native BLE on the R-PI and you need to implement a mesh stack on it. This we don't provide. 

Option B is to use the nRF52840 dongle. On the Dongle you run the serial firmware. And the R-PI you use UART to communicate with the nRF52840. Imagin the R-PI as the PC as in the link I sent to you.