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Alternative Access Address > Motivation? #121

Closed olsky closed 7 years ago

olsky commented 8 years ago

May I ask the motivation behind the alternative access address?

It can be very useful, but I'd like to know if I get it the right direction...

thank you!

trond-snekvik commented 8 years ago

Hi,

The alternative access addresses allows us to scan for regular BLE advertisement packets, and use the new :star2:peek functionality:star2: to discover beacons or other non-mesh devices while the mesh runs on an alternate access address. In addition, the DFU runs exclusively on the standard access address, to allow interoperability between adjacent networks/subnets.

olsky commented 8 years ago

packets peek: long expected feature! :) :+1: