Challenge: Maximum Distance

[james.eberhardt]

I’m trying to challenge myself with a project, just to push myself to test out the new Particle Mesh devices.

I live near a park, and wanted to see if I could send a signal from one end of the park to the other end. It’s approximately 1.7 - 1.8 km from one end to the other, or just over 1 mile. At 25 meters (82 feet) between BLE devices, I figure it would take approximately 68 Argons connected on a Mesh network.

This is all theoretical at the moment. I only have 6 Argons at the moment, so getting 62 Argons is going to be a pricey endeavour.

Before I get underway, should this work in theory?

[peekay123]

@james.eberhardt, take a look here:

User Mesh Distances. Lets come up with an average

There is a similar topic which got closed Mesh distance between devices So I am starting a new one. This link is more about how many devices to have to cover an area. In this thread I have some results from my preliminary studies but I think as a community if many people post their results we can get a better understanding of the new Mesh Devices. Using the ideas of Business-Home-LineOfSight here are my results averaged over several days. Using this concept: Business/School: concrete floo…

[Moors7]

@james.eberhardt

At 25 meters (82 feet) between BLE devices

Just wanted to chime in that mesh uses OpenThread, not BLE.

[sean13]

Isn’t there a limit of 1 argon or boron per mesh net, currently? One gateway device and then the rest have to be xenons, as far as I kow.

[Moors7]

For the time being, yes.

Non-Gateway Boron

It’s not currently possible to use an Argon (or Boron) as a non-gateway mesh device (like a Xenon). And it’s not possible to add two gateways to a single mesh network at this time, though this will be allowed in the future in the high-availability pricing tier.