How to send a broadcast message to all nodes from the nRF Mesh app

[Fabbros]

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4.3.2 (latest)

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Hi!
I have to send a broadcast message (0xFFFF) from the application to the custom model implemented in all my nodes, but I'm having trouble finding a way to do that using nRF Mesh for iOS and also on Android.

Can you help me?

[philips77]

Hi,
nRF Mesh is just a sample app demonstrating some of the features exposed by the underlying mesh library.
Sending a custom mesh message to any address is possible in the app, unfortunately, but the library has an API to do just that.

Proposed solutions:

1. You may modify the app (Android or iOS) and add a custom UI that suits your needs, or hard-code the message for existing UI.
2. You may request this feature (as you did) and we may add it when we have the capacity to do so. I can't promise any date, but right now we're busy with other tasks.

I have an idea how we could do this.
We could move the Group creation and management to Settings, like for Scenes, and replace the Groups tab with a new UI that allows to send any message (perhaps with some presets) to any address using any Application Key. This screen could also contain logs to make it a "debug screen". I like the idea.