RE: nRf8001 sending MAC address while advertising

Neel — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:00:41 GMT

I have been trying to find the right setting but since I am not very well versed with the nRFgo Studio I cannot find the settings that you have mentioned here.

Can you please be a little more precise?

Neel

RE: nRf8001 sending MAC address while advertising

RS — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:17:24 GMT

Hi,

The advertisers Bluetooth device address (which will be the "mac" address) is part of the advertisement package already. Unfortunately iOS doesn't return the Bluetooth device address for peripherals. Instead it generates a UUID that is unique for a peripheral on the given iOS device only, shown as the identifier in did Discover Peripheral, as you have pasted in your question.

If you need the device address in your iOS application you can use one of the device information service characteristics (e.g. the system id) to add the device address as part of the advertisement package or scan response package. You can get the device address from the nRF8001 by issuing the GetDeviceAddress command. Remember to set the broadcast property for the characteristic in the GATT services tab in nRFgo studio and add service data to your advertisement package on the GAP settings tab.