Question about using NFC to pair example

RE: Question about using NFC to pair example

Petter Myhre — Tue, 31 May 2016 10:50:48 GMT

See this MSC. If the central supports OOB or not is included in the BLE_GAP_EVT_SEC_PARAMS_REQUEST event. The peripheral will tell the central that it supports OOB by setting the OOB bit in sd_ble_gap_sec_params_reply().

RE: Question about using NFC to pair example

MANGO — Mon, 30 May 2016 18:53:19 GMT

Hi, Petter. Then I should check out whether Android supports OOB or not in detail.

About "The example above will do OOB pairing if the central device supports it, if not, it will do Just Works pairing.",

do you mean that if I edit the example code (Experimental: Heart Rate Application with BLE pairing using NFC),

then the code can distinguish whether the central device supports OOB or not?

Similarly, can the central device tell whether the peripheral is trying an OOB pairing or not?

RE: Question about using NFC to pair example

Petter Myhre — Mon, 30 May 2016 14:54:13 GMT

Yes.
I believe it was OOB pairing with the Windows Phone, but not with the Android phone. As far as I know Android does not support OOB pairing yet, but some Windows Phones do.

The example above will do OOB pairing if the central device supports it, if not, it will do Just Works pairing.