Setup of many peripherals

[erltot]

I have many peripherals, dealing with each of them individually will be very ineffective. The peripheral has no buttons, but it has a display.

Questions:

1. For security, how can I put multiple peripherals in a whitelist? Or perhaps it is better if I give a certain "password" in the peripheral code that the central has to send for them to talk? I don't want unauthorized central units to be able to talk to my peripheral
2. Is there a good way to name the peripherals with a unique name without having to put it in manually in the code ? I need it for pairing and later for maintenance tracking. A human readable hash of the mac adress or something?

[Sigurd]

Hi,

Q1: Please see this answer.

Q2: All devices will have a unique random generated BLE address based on the FICR DEVICEADDR register. You can use this to uniquely identify the peripherals. This address is part of the advertisement packet. More information here. You also have the DEVICEID registers.