Receiving Multiple Bluetooth 'Advertising Only' Sensors

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I am using the nRF Connect design environment (in VSC) and I would like to have a central Bluetooth module that receives multiple transmit only (pure advertising) sensors that each transmit their own temperature (each would have its own unique ID embedded in the advertising) . I would like to have this central module also be able to connect to a mobile phone to download all of the detections it receives from all of the sensor advertisements it receives. 
 I found a sample/example of what I would like to for the previoius development tools titled: " Experimental: BLE Relay Example". However I don't see anything similar for the nRF Connect development tools. Does some sample code exist for such a system? At first I thought that the Bluetooth Mesh samples might be useful but they consist of sensors that have two way communication sensors which I do not have. 
 Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! 
 Thanks!

Sheldon01 · Accepted Answer

HI Einar, 
 Thanks for your comments. I had been looking at it from the 'central_uart' code and had it connecting properly to my other board and then it began scanning (and recognizing) my sensors. After thinking about it more, though, I liked your idea of starting with the 'peripheral uart' because then I can use my iPhone to make the connection like it is supposed to be for data transfer (next step). 
 The trouble is, when I copy the scanning code from the 'central_uart' to the 'peripheral_uart' I get a whole bunch of errors/warnings that I don't understand (and, I admit, I am very new to this stuff). I must be misunderstanding something rather basic but I can't figure out why they worked in 'central_uart' but not 'peripheral_uart'. Could it be that it can't be looking to make a connection because it already has one? I don't get it. 
 I've copied the problems the compiler is seeing and a bit of the source code that seemed like it should have just worked like it did in 'central_uart'. 
 Sheldon

Einar Thorsrud · Answer

Hi, 
 Good to hear you resolved the issue. 
 It should be possible for you to delete your own posts. Alternatively, you can edit it and remove what you have written there.

Receiving Multiple Bluetooth 'Advertising Only' Sensors

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