If I get a bunch of Particles for a mesh, can I hook them all up to the Raspberry Pi as a gateway to the internet? If not, is there any compatability between the two?

It may be possible one day, but we won’t have software support initially. We recommend you use an Argon or Boron to act as a Gateway for Xenons.

I had the same thought at first, but isn’t the fact that Raspberry doesn’t have the mesh radio going to be a showstopper?

Circling back on this, has anyone had any luck with Pi + Xenon as the gateway?

@emile , the chances of having a Pi as a gateway are slim to none. Particle is focused on providing stability to its mesh products and then adding the HA and mesh management features originally planned.

@peekay123 Thanks for the reply. Might be a dumb question, but what is HA? I was looking at using a bunch of Xenons to build a mesh network, and then with a Xenon serially attached to the PI. The PI would then connect out to AWS/ the internet.

[image] emile: but what is HA? High-Availabilty I think. The ability to create a mesh network with multiple cloud gateways. [image] emile: I was looking at using a bunch of Xenons to build a mesh network, and then with a Xenon serially attached to the PI. The PI would then connect out to…

@nrobinson2000 ah ok thanks for the clarification. My use case is to try and connect hundreds of Xenons together - a bit higher than what I've found in the forum so far, but within the Thread specs. Any ideas on when development for Mesh will be complete? Just found this - IoT Network Solutions —…

You might be better off to have a Xenon in an ETH wing as a gateway then using a TCP/IP transport like MQQT to move messages to the PI and then the PI to forward to AWS - easier then creating your own serial protocol and issues with handshaking

Thats a great idea. The handshake is something I am concerned about. The reasons I have been looking at the Pi over the ETH Wing - Host AWS Greengrass (run AWS Lambda functions natively on the PI for preprocessing data) Local data storage for redundancy incase the connection to the network is bro…

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Just found the OpenThread Border Router thread. That would be perfect for what I need.

Going to hop into that thread, but wanted to leave the link in case anyone else finds this in the future.

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