How to change the role of a leader router in a pymesh network ?

[rayan malro]

Hello everyone,

I wonder if it is possible to manually set a specific router as a leader in a Pymesh network

I use 3 Fipy (=routers) and here is the firmware version: Pycom MicroPython 1.20.2.rc11
I use this repo without using pybytes: https://github.com/pycom/pycom-libraries/tree/master/pymesh/pymesh_frozen

When the mesh network is running, a leader is defined automatically. I would like to manually change its router role to set another leader in the network.

I tried to change the leaderweight to increase the probability of a router becoming a leader with the following command:

pymesh.leader_priority(2)

In addition, I tried to change the role of a router and to set the current leader as a simple router following this cli command :

# code used to define the router as a leader
pymesh.ot_cli('state leader') 
# code used to define the current leader as a router
pymesh.ot_cli('state router')

But this does not work. The leader router of the original network reverts to its role as leader.

Thanks in advance for any answer,
Have a great day