RE: BLE Mesh Light switch example - Client SDK Provisioning issue with nRF52883 DK board

tesc — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 08:52:48 GMT

Hi,

There are some issues with the first video:

It is quite fast moving, without any captions or voiceover, so you could have easily missed a step.
It is using nRF5 SDK for Mesh version 3.1.0, and there might be differences between that version and the current version (v5.0.0). In theory the process should be the same, though.
When starting to use the nRF Mesh app, the user resets the network. If you do this every time you provision a new node, then the provisioner will forget all previously provisioned devices. Those devices will still think they are part of the old, deleted network. Since they are still technically part of a network, they will not enter provisioning mode. That might be what you are experiencing now. In order to recover from that situation, you can do an erase all on the affected board, program it again, and then do the provisioning.

I have not checked the other videos. Depending on which one you follow, there might be other potential issues.

Instead of following third party videos, I recommend using the SDK documentation on Infocenter: Light switch example - Testing the example.

Regards,
Terje

Kenneth — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:51:24 GMT

Hello,

I will check tomorrow if anyone have any idea, let me know if you have any discoveries in the meantime.

Kenneth