is Gazell ready for a tree scatternet port (on nrf51)

[Fabien Comte]

Hello,

I'm interested to port a scatternet tree protocol but I'm not sure about that Gazell can support all.

My mandatory items are :

• Each node can send or receive notifications (no acknowledge, valid for host and device)
• Multiples Gazell networks can cohexist
• nRF51 can have several links (device on network A ant host on network B at same time)
• Can connect without distance limitation (30 cm in documents) but with an id filter.
• Can do connections over 30 meters.

[Håkon Alseth]

Gazell is a star based RF protocol, like BLE is. This means that you have one host, and several devices (up to 8) in one star network.

The problem with gazell is that it cannot switch roles on-the-fly, so you cannot join network A and network B without disabling/reconfiguring/enabling. the ANT protocol could be worth looking into, or the mesh-implementation on our github. Please see this thread for more detailed information: devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

Cheers, Håkon