RE: Automatic Provisioning

AHaug — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:38:21 GMT

Hi,

[quote user=""]What methods should I develop to form such a system?[/quote]

Automatic provisioning should be a good solution. You may for instance give the node a spesific UUID for unprovisioned beacon (the beacon you send out when you call for a network to be incorporated in), such that the provisioner knows what devices to add and what type of devices they are.

You may also use the same UUID to connect a specific unit/device to a given address to keep track in the provisioner and/or on your phone.

Depending on what you may want to do further, but you should take a look at group-addresses and the publish/subscribe paradigme in Bluetooth mesh (found under the section regarding "Addressing" and "Models and elements". This will allow you to configure nodes to subscribe to given group-addresses and to publish to given group-addresses instead of configuring the network with unicast-addresses directly.

Unfortunately some of the features you are asking for does only exist in nRF5 SDK, but as far as possible I would recommend you to work with nRF Connect SDK (NCS) instead, so I will ask around to see if I can find any information I can give you that will help you work around those limitations.

Kind regards,
Andreas