Beeton 101

Overview

Beeton is the answer to easy to use, easy to configure communication for mesh networking. Built on top of OpenThread, it hides the complexity allowing for the end user to get on with building what they want, rather than defining their own protocol.

Basic Structure

Beeton decoders has a very simple network structure, that of a star, but with relaying through other nodes if needed, called broken star. At the centre of the star is the leader, which is the main controller of the system. Not a thing itself, but the way things talk to each other. Everything gets relayed through the leader, and the leader tracks the joiners.

All devices that are not the leader are joiners. These include things and joiners that are not things, such as controllers, which only emit controls, not receive them.

All of this behaviour is defined within the files within the beeton and lightThread folders.

Installation