How to enable Bluetooth 5 long range advertisements

[Peter Lerup]

Hi,

I'm experimenting with the nrf52840 preview board.

I have tried the example "ble_app_att_mtu_throughput" using the coded option to check the extended range and it works fairly well. I heard that there is a bug in the sd which cripples the actual range though...

My question is regarding extended range advertising. It looks like the BLE_GAP_PHY_CODED option is something that is set up via negotiation during the actual connection.

What is the proper way to set up advertising so that BLE 5 devices can get the extended range during advertisement phase.

Thanks /Peter Lerup

[Ulrich Myhre]

In order to create connections on coded phy, you need to make use of the advertising extensions. These are supported in the latest alpha (s140 5.0.0-3). I haven't had a chance to play around with it, but there is an example inside the release that you can use.

It's called ble_app_att_mtu_throughput_example_connecting_on_long_range.zip and resides in the public folder.

[Petter Myhre]

It is in the SoftDevice zip. Downloadable here.