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Cannot restart advertising in Beacon example

Hey guys!

I face a problem that I have not been able to solve since several days...

I would like to send only one advertising frame every 4 seconds. I do not want to use connectable mode since I only need to send few values periodically, and I do not need to get any answers. So I have modified "ble beacon example", which appears to be the best starting point for my project.

I have set interval and timeout like this:

#define APP_CFG_NON_CONN_ADV_TIMEOUT    1
#define NON_CONNECTABLE_ADV_INTERVAL    MSEC_TO_UNITS(2000, UNIT_0_625_MS)

Normally I send a frame every 2 seconds, but with the timeout of 1sec, I only send 1 frame and the advertising stops.

I have set a timer every 4 seconds that launches the function "advertising_start()".

It works once. In the main loop, I launch once "avertising_init()" and when the timer reaches 4 seconds, it launches "advertising_start()". However, the next 4 seconds, my board seems to reset. I have enabled nRF_log, and when the timer uses again "advertising_start()" I can see:

APP_ERROR:ERROR:Fatal

Considering this post, I am stopping correctly the advertising. And with this one, it seems that I am restarting it correctly.

I need help to find what I am doing wrong... :D

Thanks for your help!

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  • Hey! That is what I am planning to do: compare which mode consumes more power. To see if there is more or less average power used by spikes when I turn on BLE compared to let it always turn. I have seen your solution in other posts, but I have not tried it because some people say that it has strange behavior. But you have convinced me and for the moment, I do not see any side effect and I do not have "Fatal error" or reset anymore. Thanks a lot for your help!

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  • Hey! That is what I am planning to do: compare which mode consumes more power. To see if there is more or less average power used by spikes when I turn on BLE compared to let it always turn. I have seen your solution in other posts, but I have not tried it because some people say that it has strange behavior. But you have convinced me and for the moment, I do not see any side effect and I do not have "Fatal error" or reset anymore. Thanks a lot for your help!

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