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shogunxam / ESP32_BLETracker

ESP32 Bluetooth LE Tracker
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Multiple esp32 network #52

Closed matthieup240 closed 3 years ago

matthieup240 commented 3 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for this project ! Is actually possible to connect multiple ESP32 like a mesh network ? Like PainlessMesh (https://gitlab.com/painlessMesh/painlessMesh) ? Thanks

shogunxam commented 3 years ago

Hi matthieup240 , currently you can have multiple esp32 with different gateway name but they are not connected between them, each of them doesn't know the others and all of them talk with the broker. If you think this can be useful I can try to add this feature if it's not too much memory consuming. Which is exactly the scenario you are facing or imagining?

matthieup240 commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your answer. Ok, I understand. I think it could be useful to track Beacons over big houses or another location without adding wifi repeaters. Nevertheless, I don't know if it can consume too much memory... I have installed Painless library on 5 ESP32 and works like a charm but doesn't yes test with more functionalities...

I have seen some others projects with trilateration to get the precise beacon location. Do you think this project could to do it ? (like https://github.com/simonbogh/ESP32-iBeacon-indoor-positioning) My scenario is to track shoes boxes on the house :p

shogunxam commented 3 years ago

Hi @matthieup240 sorry for the delay, I was busy with my job. I don't think my project can work with ESP32-iBeacon-indoor-positioning as it is simply because the payloads format I send via MQTT are different, but looking to that project I'm sending all the information you need (MAC address and rssi) so theoretically it could work with some changes to the ESP32-iBeacon-indoor-positioning dashboard to get the needed information also from my payloads (I think the related code is in the file dashboard/src/MessageStack/MessageStack.js). Let me do a deeper analysis to integrate the PainlessMesh library in my project.

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