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@@ -2,15 +2,6 @@ still WIP -## terminology - -|verb/acronym|description| -|-|-| -|dongle|USB stick with a nRF52833 or nRF52840 module| -|bts|Border Transport Server| -|node|A dongle running in node mode| -|border router|A dongle running in border router mode| - ## architecture <div align="center"> @@ -19,26 +10,14 @@ still WIP Above is a draft version of the system architecture. -- Each node runs the same firmware, and is capable of being a border router. -- Each dongle starts in "node mode" by default, and only turns into border - router mode once it receives a special command over the USB serial bus. +- Each node runs the same firmware, and is capable of being a border router + over the serial interface exposed by the J-Link debugger. - A node can turn into a border router, but will still keep functioning as a normal node as well. -- All blocks in the desktop computer zone can be run on different computers - over the network. -- The BTS creates a TCP socket which sends data to the client on incoming - events from the mesh network, and broadcasts any data received from the - client back to the mesh network. -- The configuration UI / action handler server sends and receives events - to/from the TCP socket API, and will decide which actions should be taken for - each event. +- The configuration UI can do the following: + - Change which buttons toggle which led(s) + - Manually set/reset leds of nodes + - List all connected nodes in the bluetooth mesh network - The protocol used for communicating between network nodes is preferably in a binary format to save on bandwidth. -- The protocol used by the TCP socket API is text-based, as it's used to - communicate between userspace services on desktop computers. -- Each node sends a button event to the border router when it's button is - pressed. -- Each node sets it's LED's status upon receiving an LED event. -- Each node has it's own ID (this is probably going to be it's bluetooth MAC - address for simplicity). |