I came across this in the literature:
The XBee acts as a BLE GATT server
and allows client devices, such as
a cellphone or a third-party BLE
device such as the Nordic nRF and
SiLabs BGM, to configure the XBee
or transfer data with the User Data
Relay frame using the XBee API BLE
Service.
and the features page says this:
Bluetooth® Low Energy for beaconing,
connecting to Bluetooth sensors and
local configuration using the Digi
XBee Mobile app
This is exactly what I’m trying to do: set up a few nRF52840 devices as a sensor network, having them all report to the XBee3-LTE-M module, and the XBee3 collates and forwards these messages on. I think I figured out how to do it but before I spend time developing the firmware I wanted to ask: since the Digi documentation nametions Nordic nRF in several places, has somebody already done this? I couldn’t find any open projects that seem to.
If someone knows how this works maybe you can check my thinking here. I don’t think the Xbee3 module can reach out to remote sensors, it is a GATT server but there are no corresponding GATT client functions. Therefore, for this to work, the nRF devices have to connect to the Xbee3. That’s not a bad way to do it, where the remote sensors push data to the XBee3. To do that, they need to:
- Authenticate using the SRP protocol
- Send API frames using 0x2D as the frame type, and indicate that the frames should be sent to micropython (destination=2).
The second part seems pretty easy, but the first part is harder. I found this library
https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/0.4.0/nrfxlib/crypto/doc/api.html#srp-secure-remote-password-apis
that might do it, but it is in a section of documentation for the CC310 and I’m using an nRF52840.
Has anybody succeeded in doing this?