How to make beacon connectable

[arjun]

Hi Nordic,

I am trying to implement DFU-OTA in beacon. For that I am trying to make beacon connectable. My requirement is to work the beacon in non-connectable mode during normal operation whereas for implementing DFU, I need to make it connectable by using a button press.

What I have implemented - when a button is pressed, I stop the advertising and start the connectable advertising.

Issue faced- I am not able to perform DFU. My reasoning is that, since I have copied the DFU relevant code snippets from working example code, there is nearly no chance of error in DFU part. So I am guessing the issue lies with transition from non-connectable to connectable mode.

Is my implementation for connectable mode correct?If there is a better way of implementing the following, please suggest..

[arjun]

Hi Hung,

For debugging purpose, I am tried to make beacon by default in connectable mode.Thus I replaced the BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_ADV_NONCONN_IND in the advertising_init() with BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_ADV_IND. But when I do this , the device stops advertising, whereas when I change it back to non-connectable, its advertising. For further surety, I added all the connection related parameters and functions(conn_params_init()).

Can beacon be made connectable at all? If so, is button based DFU the only solution for implementing DFU-OTA in beacon?