How to disable advertising timeout in BLE peripheral in SDK 12.1?

RE: How to disable advertising timeout in BLE peripheral in SDK 12.1?

Sigurd — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:36:19 GMT

Hi suvarna_kadam,

Please create a new question for your issue. See this link.

RE: How to disable advertising timeout in BLE peripheral in SDK 12.1?

suvarna_kadam — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:00:50 GMT

HI Sigurd

I am using sdk 11 and softdevice S130, I did the above mentioned setting, but device failed to advertise.

I am developing device which should advertise infinite time. Please help me with this.

RE: How to disable advertising timeout in BLE peripheral in SDK 12.1?

eeboarder — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:53:25 GMT

Well, that was easy. Thanks again, Sigurd!

RE: How to disable advertising timeout in BLE peripheral in SDK 12.1?

Sigurd — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 08:18:02 GMT

Hi,

The ble_app_uart example uses something called limited discoverable mode(BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_LIMITED_DISC_MODE) , with this mode it is not allowed to advertise longer than a specified limited timeout period. But if you don't want the advertising to stop, you can switch to general discoverable mode(BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_GENERAL_DISC_MODE), and set the timeout to 0 to do unlimited advertising:

advdata.flags                 = BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_GENERAL_DISC_MODE;
options.ble_adv_fast_timeout  = 0; // APP_ADV_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS