Pierre-Henri, The way Bluetooth mesh was designed to work is using advertising bearer. This allows mesh nodes to communicate by sending short bursts of data, allowing for effective and power-efficient communication. There is also another bearer, used by the devices that cannot send and receive advertising packets in controlled way, like mobile phones. This bearer uses GATT connection to the mesh node that offers a service called GATT Proxy. Such a node is able to receive mesh messages tunneled over GATT connection and forward it to the mesh network using ADV bearer. I'm not a BlueZ specialist but from what I can see, it supports just the GATT bearer. So you can use it to talk to "real" mesh nodes, but not really to be such a node. Hope this helps, Michal Hobot > Wiadomość napisana przez Pierre-Henri Wibaut <wibautph@xxxxxxxxx> w dniu 22.11.2017, o godz. 16:04: > > Hi everyone, > > I’ve just seen that you added support for mesh in bluez. Nice! > I wanted to know if building a mesh network is tricky or not for the > moment. I already made a mesh network with NRF24L01 chips. > I would like to switch to BT and bluez for future work, but has no > experience in BT (anyway, always happy to learn). > > My setup would be meshing C.H.I.P > (https://docs.getchip.com/chip.html#chip-hardware) together (chipset > RTL8723BS) > And raspberry pi 3. Both looks like supported by bluez and are >=4.0 > BT. Does it worth it to give it a try? > > Is the mesh specific to some hardware or any >= 4.0 chip does the job? > > Thank you for your answers. > > kind regards > > Wibaut PH > Oxykube SCRL > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
