Espressif's implementation of mesh networks seems limited to a single Access Point for interfacing the mesh to the outside world. Is it possible to get around this restriction? Basically I'm looking to create a sort of bi-directional mesh network with two access points.

One of my projects is to ...

Okay, so it turns out that this behavior is a bug with the current version of the ESP32 chip. With the current ESP32s, an ESP-MESH network can connect to at most to only one AP; if a 2nd AP is actively connected to, the mesh network bifurcates into two meshes, each with one AP, and the two meshes ...

Here's an interesting observation...

I have ESP32 mesh node A bridged to an AP (192.168.0.5), and mesh node B bridged to another AP (192.168.0.10). The mesh network config for both A and B is identical:

#define MESH_PREFIX "WalkTalkMesh"
#define MESH_PASSWORD "somethingSneaky"
#define MESH_PORT ...

I have little project to use ESP32 mesh to enable 2 Raspberry Pi Zeros to act like "walkie-talkies".

So each RPi is a WiFi AP hotspot and has a piggybacked ESP32 board (which acts as a bridge from the mesh to the RPi's AP, using painlessMesh). That part works fine.

But the RPi+ESP mesh of the one ...