Health Server

The Health Server model provides attention callbacks and node diagnostics for Health Client models. It is primarily used to report faults in the mesh node and map the mesh nodes to their physical location.

If present, the Health Server model must be instantiated on the primary element.

Faults

The Health Server model may report a list of faults that have occurred in the device’s lifetime. Typically, the faults are events or conditions that may alter the behavior of the node, like power outages or faulty peripherals. Faults are split into warnings and errors. Warnings indicate conditions that are close to the limits of what the node is designed to withstand, but not necessarily damaging to the device. Errors indicate conditions that are outside of the node’s design limits, and may have caused invalid behavior or permanent damage to the device.

Fault values 0x01 to 0x7f are reserved for the Bluetooth Mesh specification, and the full list of specification defined faults are available in Health faults. Fault values 0x80 to 0xff are vendor specific. The list of faults are always reported with a company ID to help interpreting the vendor specific faults.

Attention state

The attention state is used to make the device call attention to itself through some physical behavior like blinking, playing a sound or vibrating. The attention state may be used during provisioning to let the user know which device they’re provisioning, as well as through the Health models at runtime.

The attention state is always assigned a timeout in the range of one to 255 seconds when enabled. The Health Server API provides two callbacks for the application to run their attention calling behavior: bt_mesh_health_srv_cb.attn_on is called at the beginning of the attention period, bt_mesh_health_srv_cb.attn_off is called at the end.

The remaining time for the attention period may be queried through bt_mesh_health_srv.attn_timer.

API reference

Health Server Model

Health faults

Fault values defined by the Bluetooth Mesh specification.

Health faults