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Possible for intermediate parent to connect with WiFi as well?

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 5:42 pm
by hassan789
Possible for intermediate parent/leaf to connect with WiFi as well as be part of the mesh?

I have a mesh with 15 devices in my mesh. I would like to have a socket open with 1 (or more devices) for command and control directly from my laptop (through TCP/IP).

Or potentially duty cycle between being a leaf & normal station?

Re: Possible for intermediate parent to connect with WiFi as well?

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:23 am
by ESP_LBB
Hi hassan789,

Yes it's feasible, we can stop Mesh and then enable normal wifi task or otherwise. However the switch between these two functions can generate a delay.

Could you share us your user scenario that we may have some different ideas ? Why would you want to control the deviece directly when you can already control it through mesh network ?

Re: Possible for intermediate parent to connect with WiFi as well?

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:58 am
by hassan789
ESP_LBB
Looking for a method to debug complex mesh issues, and corner cases like crashes.
Another thought I had was running BLE (gatt-server) on all of them, and viewing logs that way. or maybe ESPNOW?

Thanks! :D

Re: Possible for intermediate parent to connect with WiFi as well?

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 6:30 am
by ESP_LBB
yes, we are using ESP-NOW for debuging, please refer to this demo : https://github.com/espressif/esp-mdf/tr ... less_debug

Re: Possible for intermediate parent to connect with WiFi as well?

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 2:51 pm
by hassan789
ESP_LBB wrote:
Wed Jun 26, 2019 6:30 am
yes, we are using ESP-NOW for debuging, please refer to this demo : https://github.com/espressif/esp-mdf/tr ... less_debug
wow, just in time :o