How to scan for beacon data in nrf51-dk

[Prasanth Thangavel]

Hi,

I am new to nrf51-dk and I am using nRF5 SDK v11.0.0 and S130. I wanted to perform the task below.

• I have a couple of nRF Beacons and want to program one of it so that it scans for iBeacon packets from any advertiser (let it be another nrF beacon or my iPhone).
• If the scanned packets match the predefined data in program(UUID, major and minor values), i need to turn on Onboard LED.

Most of the example programs i found shows how to advertise and scan in the same board simultaneously. For my case, i just need the scanning function. Also, most of the programs uses interrupts and ble events. Can't i use 1 simple function to read the scanned data?

Is there any online program or tutorials or reference where i can learn to do this? It's quite urgent and it would be of great help if anyone can help me.

Thank You :)

[Stefan Birnir Sverrisson]

Hi Prasanth

There is an explanation here that lists the connection procedure of the ble_app_uart_c example. This thread describes how the beacon firmware 1.1.1 works, which may not be relevant to you, but there is an image there which shows the format of the beacon packet.

So I suspect you need to initialize the discovery module with db_discovery_init(). When you get the advertising report, you need to manually locate the UUID, minor and major values in the packet.

Let me know if my hints are adequate or not.

Update 5.7.2016 Perhaps this scanner beacon example can help as well