python bluetooth mesh on Raspberry Pi 3. Prerequisites for student lab development

[vpl-profess]

Hi,

I intend to develop a lab for students to explore the bluetooth mesh concenpts.
I have several Raspberry PI 3 available, but cannot find any recent blog that clearly provide a installation procedure of the right bluez stack etc ...
I would love using this python lib but wonder

• If I can use it on a raspberry PI 3 ?
• if yes any tuto or blog that you recommend to install the right bluez version on top such as your python lib works ?

Thanks in advance for your help

VIncent

[rosterloh]

@vpl-profess Have you seen this? I've succefully followed that and got it working. I know that all the required modules have recently been added into the raspberry pi kernel as modules but I've not yet worked out which combination to load to get it to work without selecting them as built-ins. I'd be keen to know how your research turns out.

[vpl-profess]

Hi,
Thanks a lot for your answer. I've found like you this bluetooth documentation that evolved since 2018. The version you are pointing is the latest one and aggregates all the previous (seperated) docs. So if you tell me it's working it means that I could rely on it. Great !
I'm reluctant to ask the student developping a prototype on top of the bluez stack directly. It seems that the stack is very robust and mature but no code sample or tutorial illustrating the different capabilties, from which the students could start from.
That's why I turned my eyes to your wrapper as usually such open source contribution comes with examples that would speed up the student "take off". Then I could ask them to focus on an asset tracking use case for example leveraging your contribution on github.
Do you intend to publish some examples on github soon ?

Thanks again for your answer

Talk to you
VIncent

[rosterloh]

@vpl-profess To be clear I'm not the author of this project I'm just watching it. I'm also planning on using it for an upcoming project but I'm still working on the sensor node firmware at the moment.

PS. I can also confirm you don't need to recompile the kernel on the rpi anymore as the required modules are included by default.

[michallowasrzechonek-silvair]

Well, we've made this package mostly for ourselves, but since we're trying to be the good guys, we shared it as open source.

So far it's just me and my team both working on and using it, so the documentation is virtually non-existent... I'm happy to answer questions, though.

That, and accept contributions :D