I wanted to give you all an update from the Particle team on the progress of our upcoming Particle Mesh line of products.
When Mesh was announced in back February, we targeted a ship date of July 2018 but, with current product development timeline, Particle Mesh will now ship to preorder customers in September 2018.
The Particle Mesh family features cutting-edge communication protocols like Thread, Bluetooth 5, and LTE M1/NB1 which require entirely new silicon that, in some cases, has never been deployed in a product before. There are benefits to working with these powerful new technologies for both you and our team, but it also means our engineering teams are working through new challenges — limited access to hardware samples, quickly evolving chipset SDKs, and unexpected firmware bugs.
We hope you’ll follow along with us as the team works to bring you Particle Mesh. If you have questions, please feel free to ask away here in our community forums — our team is here to help out with answers.
Hi Joe, I work in software development too so I understand the slip.
If you need beta testers please let me (and the community) know!
The transparency is appreciated and a nice touch - thank you.
Gustavo.
@Joe Life is good, so excited for the new platform!! Let me know if you need another beta tester, I’m a Senior SRE by day so am use to being very detail orientated when investigating issues.
If you ever need to test some products in Canada, feel free to let me know. I can easily have (connection-wise) products tested in the major Canadian cities, as availability of the LTE-M network isn’t quite at the same stage everywhere
This is totally OK, I think all of us who work in engineering feel your pain!
I don’t know if this is the place to ask about such things, but soon after the announcement one of our clients was enquiring with us about the possibility of implementing the new mesh-enabled particle products within a project. So my question is whether the stand-alone modules, ala the P0 and P1, for the 3rd generation mesh products is likely to launch in a similar timeframe to the development boards. Or is that something which is likely to come a little later? Thanks.
We haven’t nailed down a specific date yet but it’s likely it will be after Mesh preorders begin to ship in September. I’ll be sure to keep the community updated as the timeline comes into form.
I saw Adafruit has the same chip on hand now so I'm pretty sure they will take advantage of the BLE 5 and since they release everything open source that may help Particle with BLE. But only time will tell
From what I know, Particle plans on adding a BLE API but only after the initial release of the mesh products. No specific timeline has been discussed as of yet.
We’ll send an email out closer to the ship date asking for the most up-to-date shipping address, so you’ll be able to change it then. Also, if you decide to add any additional items to your pre-order, when you’re adding these new items, you’ll be able to edit the address there too.
