Hi,
I'm planning to develope a set of BLE mesh devices (one control unit which is the coordinator and configurator) and sensor devices (low-power, friend and relay nodes or combination of).
I would also need to be able to receive advertising data from a device but which won’t be paired with the coordinator. I understand this as that we’d also need BLE central functionality.
My questions are:
1. Is nRF Connect SDK the best choice or should I consider nRF5 SDK + SoftDevice140? Best in this case means easiest and quickest way to achieve results. I'm not familiar with Zephyr and I've been told it has fairly steep learning curve so I'll perhaps avoid that. I've got nRF52840 DK and a module with the same chip.
2. How do I access the advertising PDU using the SDK of choice (probably nRF Connect SDK) to retrieve data? I haven't found an explicit way for this despite looking. Perhaps I've not looked in the right place.
3. What else would I need in addition to the SDK of choice? Libraries, suggested examples etc.?
I am new to whole Nordic ecosystem, device and SDK and I'm not a hard-core SW developer but have read through tutorials and examples also for SES IDE development. So, I think I know enough to be dangerous. ;)
Many thanks.
