Function of ScanStart in Mesh SDK

[Sai]

How does scanstart serial command work in the Mesh SDK?

According to the documentation, it appears that the command lists out unprovisioned beacons. I get a success response but nothing seems to happen in my interactive terminal.

I am trying to setup a BLE mesh network where a node scans for beacons (that are not part of the Mesh) and transmits the MAC ids back to master. I would like to print the available beacons via serial port. How do I accomplish this? Should I combine my Mesh SDK and my nRF SDK to accomplish scanning for nearby devices?

[Petter Myhre]

Scan start should start the reporting of incoming unprovisioned beacons. This is done with the Prov Unprovisioned Received event.

This seems to be the relevant part in provisioning.py

def __event_handler(self, event):
    if event._opcode == Event.PROV_UNPROVISIONED_RECEIVED:
        if event._data not in self.__unprov_list:
            uuid_fmt = str(hexlify(event._data["uuid"]), 'ascii').upper()
            self.logger.info(
                "Received UUID {} with RSSI: -{} dB".format(
                    uuid_fmt, event._data["rssi"]))
            self.__unprov_list.add(event._data)

Looks like the address isn't printed, but I guess you can add that yourself.

But if you get nothing printed this is not the problem.

[Sai]

You are right. I am not getting anything.

[Petter Myhre]

What exacly have you done? Did you follow the Example under Provisioning here?