You are reading a single comment by @Gordon and its replies. Click here to read the full conversation.
  • Yeah, it's a pain. It feels like it wouldn't have been the end of the world for them to do something just a tiny bit more complex and make Bluetooth Mesh really amazing, but it's really just a dumb implementation of meshing (using flooding). I think they had a very specific use case in mind (Bluetooth LE lighting) and just designed it for that.

    Noah at Baronbrew did something really cool for their Espruino-based repeater though: http://www.espruino.com/Tilt+Repeater

    Basically a device listens for advertisements and then 'syncs' with the beacon, so it's only listening for a short period of time. You can't make it too small as some randomisation is built into the BLE spec, but you can still save a lot of power that way.

    I had plans for a module that did it for you for multiple beacons, but haven't got around to finishing that yet.

About

Avatar for Gordon @Gordon started