nRF Mesh Provisioning App

Question

NORDIC Dev Forum Ticket.pdf 
 Hi!, 
 We are in the process of developing BLE Mesh for Lighting applications. We are currently working with nRF52840 DK. We have successfully tested BLE Mesh models for 1. Dimmimg 2. CTL 3. LC on our LED Drivers and works very well. We have used nRF Mesh SDK examples to run our LED Drivers and Luminaires. Results are very encouraging. 
 The next challenge we are facing is with respect to Android App customisation. We are currently running all of the above 3 models with the help of nRF Mesh app. Now we wish to customise this open source to make it user friendly. 
 We have noticed that there are 15x2(nodes) = 30 steps involved in provisioning a single Dimming mesh model to 2 nos. of Dimmable Lights. This by any standard can not be considered user friendly. 
 Please see attached Doc for a better idea of the problem and solution we are seeking. 
 This may sound pretty elementary to this forum but as a Group Leader I (not an embedded specialist) would like to understand the direction in which our programming team(embedded engineers) team should move ahead. Some basic concepts and area of focus would be of great help. 
 We may also consider professional help from the experienced people here. 
 BR 
 jparekh68

Roshan Rajaratnam · Accepted Answer

HI, 
 Note that setting up a mesh device includes provisioning and configuration(to make the node usable). Our sample app sends the following configuration, CompositionDataGet, AddAppKey, GetDefaultTtl messages before displaying Configuration Complete message. This is only very basic configuration because the user still have to bind an app key, create groups, publication settings and subscriptions but this all depends on how you want the network configured. 
 You can send configuration messages on the background i.e. when a user assigns a lgiht/switch to a specific group(or a room in a home environment). This will make it much more user friendly as our app is targeting developers to make their debuggin easier. 
 Unfortunately we don't build apps as service but if there are any issues please get in touch and hope this helps.