nRF52840-DK: Coded PHY (Long-range) Mesh SDK

[Angelo]

Good day!

We have six of the nRF52840-DKs and would like to try coded PHY mesh communication.
Is there a link for the SDK which features coded PHY (long-range) mesh?

Apologies as I've been looking at inquiries/posts from 3 years ago up to current (searching "long range mesh"), and I still couldn't find a link to the SDK.
Or perhaps the current SDK already supports this?

Cheers!
Angelo

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Hi.

Sorry about the delay.

The nRF5 SDK for Mesh can be downloaded here:
https://www.nordicsemi.com/Software-and-tools/Software/nRF5-SDK-for-Mesh

The Mesh specification is based on an older version of the BLE specification, thus Coded PHY (Long Range) isn't supported.
The link you found on devzone is just a way to change the PHY in order to test this.

Br,
Joakim

[Nabil]

Hello,

Our development is blocked because of this issue.

We would like to work with nRF52833 modules in long range BLE 5.1.

For now we are using nrf_mesh_sdk_4.2.0 and SDK_16.

Does this mean that automatically without doing anything the long range is enabled and the antenna capabilities in BLE 5.1 are activated? (with mesh sdk 4.2.0)

It's a little bit complicated to figure out what is enabled and what is not by default? It is also complicated to understand how to enabled/disabled the antenna options.

We are interested in the long range and increase data rate options.

Could you give us more information?

Thank you very much. 

Br, 

Nabil