I'm not pretending to build a long distance mesh network with BLE, and I'm aware of other solutions to extend the range as LoRa and meshtastic.
But I still think a BLE relay could be very useful to improve BLE mesh in certain situations and locations.
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I fail to understand the concept. The main device i.e phone would need to be 10meters/30feet away from the next mesh BLE relay , and the next BLE relay would been to equally be that close .. not sure that distance constitutes a meaningful mesh relay as such. I'm all for building tech don't get me wrong but has to be practical and have some sort of use case ! 🧡
I have a big house where I'd like to be able to use bitchat between family members and visitors.
I reckon that with 2 or 3 BLE nodes I would be able to extend the mesh throughout the whole house and gardens.
That's the use case I'm thinking, but I guess some of those nodes would also be useful in large venues for conferences, concerts, etc.
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But that's why the added geohash locations and private group ability over wifi / Internet. From what I read on their repo they will probably delete BLE stack from that app as it's been a flop.
I'm looking for local communication without internet.
Where did you read that they are going to delete the BLE mesh functionality??
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