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MultiNav Pro+ BLE - how does it handle multiple simultaneous connections?

Nicholas FeltJuly 14, 2026
Been working on a project where I need a central node talking to several remote sensor units spread out across a pretty wide area - like a distributed monitoring setup. The BLE module's range specs are obviously the main draw here, but I'm trying to figure out what the actual connection topology looks like in practice. Can this thing act as a central and maintain connections to, say, 5-10 peripheral nodes at the same time? Or is it really optimized for point-to-point long range and the multi-connection stuff is secondary?
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AdamJuly 14, 2026
@Nicholas Felt good question, and honestly the distributed monitoring use case is something that comes up a lot here.
 
The MultiNav Pro+ is built on the STM32WB07, which does support multiple simultaneous BLE connections in central role — but I'd be straight with you: the firmware as shipped is optimized around point-to-point long-range performance, and that's where it genuinely shines. Multi-connection topology is possible, but how well it scales to 5-10 nodes simultaneously depends on how you configure the connection intervals and what data rate you're actually pushing per node.
 
The good news is the firmware is open source on GitHub (github.com/RFOXiA/MultiNav-Pro-Long-Range-BLE-Module-Firmware-STM32WB07), so you can dig into the connection management layer directly and tune it for your topology — and the AI Firmware Builder in the Dev Hub is actually pretty useful for generating a starting point for a hub-and-spoke architecture if you describe your use case to it. For a distributed sensor monitoring setup at range, you might also want to think about whether a mesh approach through the module's relay capability makes more sense than a pure star topology, especially if some of your remote nodes are pushing the 5km ground range limit.
 
What's the approximate spread of your nodes and what kind of data payload are you looking at per unit? That'll help narrow down whether you're better off with a direct multi-connection central or a relay chain.
kristin hinkJuly 14, 2026
The MultiNav Pro+ can definitely act as central with multiple peripherals, but in my experience you start seeing connection interval contention pretty bad around 6-7 simultaneous connections depending on how chatty your sensors are - if they're just periodic readings you'll probably be fine, but if they're streaming you'll want to stagger your connection intervals manually. Also worth checking what firmware version you're on because the earlier builds had a bug where the connection table would silently drop the oldest entry when you hit the limit instead of throwing an error, which was a fun one to debug lol.

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