Mesh Models

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Overview

This is a application demonstrating a Bluetooth Mesh node in which Root element has following models

  • Generic OnOff Server

  • Generic OnOff Client

  • Generic Level Server

  • Generic Level Client

  • Generic Default Transition Time Server

  • Generic Default Transition Time Client

  • Generic Power OnOff Server

  • Generic Power OnOff Setup Server

  • Generic Power OnOff Client

  • Light Lightness Server

  • Light Lightness Setup Server

  • Light Lightness Client

  • Light CTL Server

  • Light CTL Setup Server

  • Light CTL Client

  • Vendor Model

And Secondary element has following models

  • Generic Level Server

  • Generic Level Client

  • Light CTL Temperature Server

Prior to provisioning, an unprovisioned beacon is broadcast that contains a unique UUID. It is obtained from the device address set by Nordic in the Factory information configuration register (FICR).

Associations of Models with hardware

For the nRF52840-PDK board, these are the model associations:

  • LED1 is associated with generic OnOff Server’s state which is part of Root element

  • LED2 is associated with Vendor Model which is part of Root element

  • LED3 is associated with generic Level (ROOT) / Light Lightness Actual value

  • LED4 is associated with generic Level (Secondary) / Light CTL Temperature value

  • Button1 and Button2 are associated with gen. OnOff Client or Vendor Model which is part of Root element

  • Button3 and Button4 are associated with gen. Level Client / Light Lightness Client / Light CTL Client which is part of Root element

States of Servers are bounded as per Bluetooth SIG Mesh Model Specification v1.0

After provisioning, the button clients must be configured to publish and the LED servers to subscribe. If a server is provided with a publish address, it will also publish its relevant status.

Requirements

This sample has been tested on the Nordic nRF52840-PDK board, but would likely also run on the nrf52dk/nrf52832 board.

Building and Running

This sample can be found under samples/boards/nordic/mesh/onoff_level_lighting_vnd_app in the Zephyr tree.

The following commands build the application.

west build -b nrf52840dk/nrf52840 samples/boards/nordic/mesh/onoff_level_lighting_vnd_app
west flash

Provisioning is done using the BlueZ meshctl utility. In this example, we’ll use meshctl commands to bind:

  • Button1, Button2, and LED1 to application key 1. It then configures Button1 and Button2 to publish to group 0xC000 and LED1 to subscribe to that group.

  • Button3, Button4, and LED3 to application key 1. It then configures Button3 and Button4 to publish to group 0xC000 and LED3 to subscribe to that group.

discover-unprovisioned on
provision <discovered UUID>
menu config
target 0100
appkey-add 1
bind 0 1 1000
bind 0 1 1001
bind 0 1 1002
bind 0 1 1003
sub-add 0100 c000 1000
sub-add 0100 c000 1002
pub-set 0100 c000 1 0 5 1001
pub-set 0100 c000 1 0 5 1003

The meshctl utility maintains a persistent JSON database containing the mesh configuration. As additional nodes (boards) are provisioned, it assigns sequential unicast addresses based on the number of elements supported by the node. This example supports 2 elements per node.

The meshctl target for configuration must be the root element’s unicast address as it is the only one that has a configuration server model. If meshctl is gracefully exited, it can be restarted and reconnected to network 0x0.

The meshctl utility also supports a onoff model client that can be used to change the state of any LED that is bound to application key 0x1. This is done by setting the target to the unicast address of the element that has that LED’s model and issuing the onoff command. Group addresses are not supported.

This application was derived from the sample mesh skeleton at samples/bluetooth/mesh.

See Bluetooth samples for details.

See also

Bluetooth Mesh