Port nRF51-ble-bcast-mesh-master to RedBear Lab BLE Nano

RE: Port nRF51-ble-bcast-mesh-master to RedBear Lab BLE Nano

David Edwin — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:30:00 GMT

As of the 0.7.x release on the sdk-8-support branch of the ble-bcast-mesh , the format of the advertising has been made compatible with Bluetooth 4.0 and uses the Service Data AD type. See github.com/.../how_it_works.adoc

RE: Port nRF51-ble-bcast-mesh-master to RedBear Lab BLE Nano

Hung Bui — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:05:33 GMT

@Max: Currently the packet between LED-Mesh is not BLE compatible. We have the option RBC_MESH_PACKET_FORMAT_ADV_COMPATIBLE for the init_params.packet_format but it's under development not ready yet.

RE: Port nRF51-ble-bcast-mesh-master to RedBear Lab BLE Nano

Max — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 07:13:06 GMT

I see. Previously, I was expecting to see advertising packets from LED example. Now I can turn LED on/off on LED example by writing LED1 value characteristic on Gateway example.

Because I still can't see any rebroadcasting packets, I am wondering how the change of LED1 value on Gateway example got to propagate to other nodes?

RE: Port nRF51-ble-bcast-mesh-master to RedBear Lab BLE Nano

Hung Bui — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:47:25 GMT

@Max: How did you test the LED example ?

Note that the BLE_Gateway allow a phone to connect and join the network, that's why we have nrf_adv_conn_init() so that BLE central device can connect and control the other nodes.

In the LED example, they only do broadcast mesh, won't allow connection. The control is either from button press, or from a phone connected to the BLE Gateway.

RE: Port nRF51-ble-bcast-mesh-master to RedBear Lab BLE Nano

Max — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:47:18 GMT

Thanks for the tip. I got rbc_mesh_BLE_Gateway working by merging it with s110_nrf51822_7.3.0_softdevice (didn't know merge is required). However, rbc_mesh_led_example is not working and I found that its main.c doesn't include nrf_adv_conn_init(). Would that be the problem?

RE: Port nRF51-ble-bcast-mesh-master to RedBear Lab BLE Nano

Hung Bui — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:35:39 GMT

@Max: have you also drag and drop softdevice to the mbed driver ? When compiling normal project with KEIL, the softdevice is not included.

You can follow this link: https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/blogs/11/using-nrf51-sdk-with-the-nrf51822-mbed-kit/