Building BLE Mesh using Zephyr

RE: Building BLE Mesh using Zephyr

AHaug — Thu, 23 May 2024 08:12:36 GMT

Hi,

Looks like this case has fallen in between two chairs, which unfortunately happens sometimes. Joakim does however not work here any more, so I will be handling the case from now. If long wait time occurs in the future, I would recommend that you give a reply to the case sooner to notify the case handler. If the latest reply is from the case handler, then the flag will be set to waiting (i.e the action is on the case creator), while if you if the latest reply is from the case creator it will be set to open and if no action has been made it will be placed back into the queue.

So as to your issue. I'm not sure where you're having trouble. You can always create a new application from scratch, and include what parts you want to include. There are two ways to do this, but to use NCS you will have to set up the CMake either manually or by copying the contents of an existing sample.

Since your last reply there has also been published quite a few getting started courses on our academy pages, where the NCS fundamentals course contains steps for setting up an application in exercise 2. Here you can see how to create a clean, basic application. I strongly recommend that you go through with both the fundamentals and intermediate course on the academy page to familiarize yourself with NCS.

In general I would recommend that you simply just use either the Hello_world sample as your basic starting point (few things to remove and everything should be set up for you to add your own implemetations to it), or the blank application which has everything set up for you as well.

If you wish to set up a completely clean sample where you create the CMakeLists.txt and other required files yourself, use the "Create a blank application" option, then inspect the files that are generated and placed in your project file and you will see what you will need to populate your CMakeLists with, then simply just repeat the steps manually.

For now the items below aren't relevant, but a few tips for future cases you create:

Include which version of the SDK you're working with, as well as which boards
Include any error logs you're getting using insert -> code function and mention what you've done to get any errors
If relevant, include any prj.conf and overlays using insert -> code

Let me know if the first few lessons in the Academy course is enough to get you started!

Kind regards,
Andreas

RE: Building BLE Mesh using Zephyr

AF1 — Thu, 23 May 2024 07:14:22 GMT

Its been 2 years.

RE: Building BLE Mesh using Zephyr

Joakim Jakobsen — Tue, 10 May 2022 10:55:40 GMT

Thanks!

I'll check with our developers and see if I can get some tips to get you started on a new project.

Br,
JOakim

RE: Building BLE Mesh using Zephyr

AF1 — Thu, 05 May 2022 02:41:11 GMT

Hi Joakim

Thanks for the response.

I don't mind using the nRF Connect SDK, I think its great. The only thing I am not able to do with it, is start a new project from scratch.

I always have to start with a sample application, which are great to understand api calls and techniques, but need the option to start a new project (from VSCode) from scratch.

There seems to be a middle layer (for the BLE mesh) which abstracts calls to Zephyr BLE Mesh structs and api, and I want to use it. However, building a project from scratch, the CMake dependency does not pickup on the apis from the middleware.

I get the same errors whilst building using NCS or Zephyr. I am sure that when a new build folder is generated in VSCode + NCS, the dependency is added. That is exactly what I want to know/learn.

Cheers

RE: Building BLE Mesh using Zephyr

Joakim Jakobsen — Tue, 03 May 2022 10:36:32 GMT

Hi.

I must admit that I haven't tried this. I would recommend you using the nRF Connect SDK. Is there any reason that you don't want to use the nRF Connect SDK?

However, I can ask internally if anyone has a solution to this.

Br,
Joakim