Inquiry about Mesh Serial

[Sama]

Hi,
I am working on the mesh serial and run that successfully once using sdk5 for mesh V.5 and nrf52840 devkit and an nrf52840 dongle as a server node.
I have several questions:

1. Is it needed to do all stages to provision and config the devices every time I connect to the device?
I did all processes successfully one time. When I turn off the devices and turn them on again they do not work and I get this error: ", timeout waiting for the event"

I want to have a device provisioned and configed previously and only I send the command every time I connected.

2. How can I use a new model with serial mesh?
I want to have a simple message model on the server-side (to send string over the mesh network). So I need to config that model via serial mesh. right? As far as I found out, there should be python files of the model in the model folder inside interactive_pyaci. How can I build the python file for the new model?

3. Can I use the serial mesh to provision and config and control a server node running sdk_coexist example (usbd_ble_uart and light switch server)?
In the SDK-coexist, the static provisioner is needed. Can I use the mesh serial example as a static provisioner?
I want to send a command to a specific node and get back a message from the node. Is it possible?

Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Sama

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Hi.

Q1)

No, it should not be necessary to provision the node each time it's power cycled.
The provisioning data should be saved in flash.

Q2)

See the documentation for Interactive PyACI script.

Q3)

You should be able to provision and configure the coexist examples (not directly, but using a device running the serial example).
Please refer to the documentation for more information:

Interactive PyACI script

Using serial interface for provisioning and configuration

[Sama]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply,

1) How and where can I save the provisioning data? Could you please give me more details?

2) For adding a new model, should I implement that in Python myself? Is not there any way to import the model in Python?

3) how can I connect to the device via a serial port? I mean if I want to use Labview software, what should I do? Is it needed to add UART peripheral?

4) Is it possible to set the value of a variable inside the client codes through PyACI? How can I do that?

Br,

Sama

[Sama]

Hi,

Is there any solution?

Br,

Sama

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Hi. 

I'll ask internally if we have a more comprehensive guide for PyACI that I can share on the subject.

Br, 
Joakim