Using mesh without cloud?

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@wolfmitchell

Is it possible to use the mesh capabilities without needing to create networks or anything on the Particle cloud?

Looks like we are working from different directions but to the same goal. I wish to use my 30 Particle Devices on a pure OpenThread Mesh Network (Like what I thought I was purchasing). I have a Border Router working on a Ubuntu laptop, but can't get an NCP device connected to the Border Router. (I am close and have ordered 3 types of Nordic USB Dongles. Only have the Fanstel Dongle yet but it uses a secure DFU bootloader that is messing me up)

Would be great to be able to flash NCP code to the Argon, but not sure if that will ever be possible.

See the thread at:

Using Particle Mesh Devices with the OpenThread Border Router

So after much head banging against the computer I think the latest problem is that the Fanstel USB Dongles use a secure DFU bootloader instead of just a regular DFU bootloader, which means everything needs to be signed to be installed. What I thought was successful on the windows machine eventually was exactly the same on Ubuntu. nrf-Connect for desktop can find the USB Dongle and can find the .hex file to load, but will not allow activation of the write ability to move the hex file to the Dong…