MESH and BLE co-existence

[Aditya Xavier <ad...@me.com>]

Hi Dev Team,

From my understanding BLE Mesh utilizing extended advertising is still in development.

Is it possible to have BLE MESH and BLE to co-exist with using extended advertisement ? i.e. similar to Nordic Softdevice doing time slicing BLE Mesh and BLE advertising signals.


Thanks,
Aditya Xavier.

Re: MESH and BLE co-existence

[Andrzej Kaczmarek <an...@codecoup.pl>]

Hi Aditya,

Time slicing in Nordic's solution is required because SoftDevice and Mesh
are two separate stacks which access the same hardware resources (in
particular the same radio). In NimBLE this is not applicable since Mesh
works on top of host stack thus co-existence of adv bearer with other
application can be achieved by just using separate advertising instances
for both tasks - this is what was already proposed and implemented so I
believe it would be best to continue discussion in that thread in order to
fix remaining issues. There is no need for different solution here.

Best,
Andrzej

On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 8:19 AM Aditya Xavier <ad...@me.com> wrote:

> Hi Dev Team,

>  From my understanding BLE Mesh utilizing extended advertising is still in
development.

> Is it possible to have BLE MESH and BLE to co-exist with using extended
advertisement ? i.e. similar to Nordic Softdevice doing time slicing BLE
Mesh and BLE advertising signals.


> Thanks,
> Aditya Xavier.