It is possible to program mesh gateway in SDK for Mesh Alpha?

[aszka]

Hi all,

I am using PCA10040 (nRF52832) and I want to create a ble mesh network. I know that this SDK contains some examples for mesh, but I am not able to find something like gateway. I would like to connect to the mesh via smartphone and execute simple action like led on/off. I Do you have some idea how to do this?

Regards

[Sigurd]

Hi,

This is not supported today, but will be supported in a future release of the Mesh SDK.

Smartphones today does not support the ADV bearer, and does not allow you to set the Mesh Message AD Type in a BLE Advertisment Packet. In order to enable non-mesh Bluetooth Low Energy devices(e.g. smartphone) to be part of a Bluetooth mesh network, the mesh network need to implement a Proxy node. A Proxy node can convert from the advertising bearer to the GATT bearer and vice versa. Therefore, a device which does not support the advertising bearer may instead send and receive various types of Bluetooth mesh messages over a GATT connection.

The current version of the Bluetooth Mesh SDK alpha version does not support the GATT bearer and the Proxy Protocol. However, these features will be added in a future release of the Mesh SDK, as stated in this blog post.

[aszka]

Hi, Sigurd Thank you for your answer.

Could you tell me, where this new Mesh SDK is going to be released? It is worth to wait?

Maybe good solution is to combine two SDK (mesh and sdk12.1). I would like to join two examples 'Light control' (from Mesh) and ble_app_uart ( from sdk12.1) Is it possible?

[Sigurd]

All information regarding roadmaps and release schedules goes through our sales organization, so you will have to contact your local Nordic Regional Sales Manager if you need more information. If you do not know who your local Nordic RSM is then let me know and I'll send you his contact info.

Yes, combining the Light Control and the ble_app_uart should be possible. We have a page about this topic at infocenter here.