Creating and sending messages to group in mesh using Serial Example (nRF Mesh v5.0.0)

[Arif@Lynxemi]

Hardware: 

• Raspberry Pi Zero W
• nRF52840 DK running Serial Example and connected to RPi via USB
• Custom nRF52840 board acting as a Vendor Model Server x 2

Software:

• nRF SDK for Mesh v5.0.0

I realise there are multiple tickets with the same topic but I'd like a response to a more recent version of the SDK. I have two provisioned vendor server models that I want to make a group of but no documentation is provided in the Interactive PyACI tutorial. I'd then like to send a message to this group and hopefully receive acknowledged replies. It is not exactly clear where to start. 

From what I understand I need to:

1) Create a group

2) Give it a group address id and get the address handle

3) Use the configuration client to make the Servers subscribe to messages from the group

4) Send the message to the group address handle

How do I do this using interactive_pyaci and the serial example?

[Simonr]

Hi

Due to the summer vacation period we are currently understaffed, so delayed replies must be expected. I am sorry about any inconvenience this might cause.

Indeed, you should start out by creating the group you'd like to do by creating a group address that all the intended server devices subscribe to. Then you can send messages to this group address handle from a client that all subscribed nodes will receive.

Best regards,

Simon

[Arif@Lynxemi]

Thanks for confirming my train of thought Simon.

However I am not sure what the specific commands to complete are in interactive_pyaci. Can you point me to any documentation that can help me with my specific scenario or help me find the commands that will?