Quick start guide: Mesh demonstration

RE: Quick start guide: Mesh demonstration

Mttrinh — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:21:53 GMT

Yes, it is possible to run the example on the dongle. You just have to make some minor changes to the nRF52840 project. This might help.

RE: Quick start guide: Mesh demonstration

gk9917 — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:46:29 GMT

Hi,

thank you for quick response. regarding 1) I would like to run "Light switch example" and turn that to communication between all lights(synchronization) as my final project, I hope that is possible. Is it possible to run this on dongles(I see no difference between the PCA other than different pinout from the NRF52840 so it should work but asking to be sure)?

greg

RE: Quick start guide: Mesh demonstration

Mttrinh — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:48:02 GMT

Hi,

1) The link you is pointing to the SDK. "run this example", do you refer to all examples from the SDK or a specific one?

2) Bluetooth Mesh is a broadcast-based network protocol, where every device in the network sends and receives all messages to and from all devices within radio range. There is no concept of connections in a mesh network. To add devices into a Mesh Network, you need to provision them into the network by using a provisioner. You can either use our Static Provisioner from the SDK or our nRF Mesh app for iOS/Android.

3) Yes, it is possible to use the nRF52840-DK as a programmer. Have a look at this and this.

4) There are not necesserily any master or slaves in a Mesh Network.

I suggest you go through some of the Mesh documentation to get a better understanding of how mesh works. Here are some resources you can read through:

Bluetooth Mesh concepts

Bluetooth Mesh stack architecture

An intro to Bluetooth Mesh

Bluetooth Mesh Specification(More in-depth information)