BLE Mesh with NRF dongle for Raspberry Pi

RE: BLE Mesh with NRF dongle for Raspberry Pi

Hung Bui — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:14:27 GMT

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.

RE: BLE Mesh with NRF dongle for Raspberry Pi

Gecko — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:09:05 GMT

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.

RE: BLE Mesh with NRF dongle for Raspberry Pi

Hung Bui — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:52:37 GMT

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.