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MultiNav Pro+ BLE - mesh networking feasible or is it strictly point-to-point?

Cody MurphyJuly 14, 2026
Been digging into the BLE module for a project I'm putting together - basically a network of remote sensor nodes spread across a pretty large agricultural property. The obvious draw is the range obviously, but I'm trying to figure out if anyone's experimented with running any kind of mesh topology on these or if the RF front-end is really just optimized for clean point-to-point links back to a central gateway.
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AdamJuly 14, 2026
@Cody Murphy great use case — agricultural sensing networks are exactly the kind of deployment where this module shines.
 
The RF front-end itself doesn't impose any hard limitation on mesh — the STM32WB07 actually has native BLE mesh support in its stack, so the radio hardware can handle multi-hop topologies. The firmware repo on GitHub is the starting point if you want to go that direction and customize how nodes discover and relay. The 5km ground-to-ground range per link means your inter-node spacing can be pretty generous compared to anything you'd build with commodity BLE, so depending on how spread out your property is, you might honestly get away with a simple star topology with a central gateway rather than needing true mesh at all.
 
That said, if the property is large enough that some nodes genuinely can't reach the gateway directly, a relay chain or partial mesh is totally feasible in firmware — it just needs to be built out. Nobody's posted a full mesh implementation in the Dev Hub yet that I've seen, but if you're willing to share what you build, that'd be a genuinely useful contribution to the community given how many people are asking exactly this question.
 
Also worth mentioning — if you pair the BLE modules with the Sensors Module, you're not just getting connectivity, you're getting temperature, humidity, air pressure, and air quality per node out of the box, which sounds like it maps pretty directly to what you'd want for ag monitoring.
John JonesJuly 14, 2026
Honestly the RF front end is really tuned for P2P - that's where you're gonna get the most out of the range spec - but a few folks here have hacked together a basic mesh using the UART passthrough and running something like OpenThread or a custom flooding protocol in software on the host MCU, with pretty decent results for lower-bandwidth sensor payloads. Wouldn't call it "native" mesh support by any stretch but for ag sensor nodes where you're not pushing a lot of data it's workable if you're okay rolling some of that logic yourself. Worth searching the thread archives here, there was a pretty detailed writeup from @devra_k a few months back doing almost exactly what you're describing.

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