esp-matter/examples/blemesh_bridge

BLE Mesh Bridge

This example demonstrates a Matter-BLE Mesh Bridge that bridges BLE Mesh devices to Matter fabric.

See the docs for more information about building and flashing the firmware.

1. Additional Environment Setup

No additional setup is required.

2. Post Commissioning Setup

2.1 Discovering BLE Mesh Devices

You can read the parts list from the Bridge to get the number of the bridged devices.

chip-tool descriptor read parts-list 0x7283 0x0

If there is no other BLE Mesh device on the BLE Mesh Network, you will get an empty result. Example:

Data = [

],

2.2 Setup BLE Mesh Node on ESP32-C3

Build and run BLE Mesh onoff_server app on another ESP32-C3 board.

cd ${IDF_PATH}/examples/bluetooth/esp_ble_mesh/ble_mesh_node/onoff_server
idf.py set-target esp32c3
idf.py -p <port> build flash monitor

The BLE Mesh device will be provisioned by provisioner and a dynamic endpoint will be added on the Bridge device. You can read the parts list again to get the dynamic endpoint ID.

chip-tool descriptor read parts-list 0x7283 0

The data will now contain the information of the connected BLE Mesh devices. Example:

Data = [
    1,
],

It means that the BLE Mesh Node is added as Endpoint 1 on the Bridge device. You can read the cluster servers list on the dynamic endpoint.

chip-tool descriptor read server-list 0x7283 1

This will give the list of supported server clusters. Example:

OnDescriptorServerListListAttributeResponse: 4 entries
  [1]: 6
  [2]: 29
  [3]: 57
  [4]: 64

2.3 Control the BLE Mesh Node with chip-tool

Now you can control the BLE Mesh Node on chip tool.

./out/chip-tool onoff toggle 0x7283 1

3. Device Performance

3.1 Memory usage

The following is the Memory and Flash Usage.

• Bootup == Device just finished booting up. Device is not commissioned or connected to wifi yet.
• After Commissioning == Device is connected to wifi and is also commissioned and is rebooted.
• device used: esp32c3_devkit_m
• tested on: 6a244a7 (2022-06-16)

	Bootup	After Commissioning
Free Internal Memory	99KB	95KB

Flash Usage: Firmware binary size: 1.42MB

This should give you a good idea about the amount of free memory that is available for you to run your application's code.