question about advertising

[Nils Minor]

Hi,

i have some more, for me fundamental, questions and i hope some one can help me :)

1.) can i use the advertise function whenever i want or only in connection interval ? And how big is the size of payload i can send by the advertising function? Will it be send on every of three advertising channels?

2.) how should i handle received advertising packets, with which interrupt or function? So would it be possible that to more or less beacons will communicate over advertising data, so one device sends advertising data and other receives and can react.

3.) Did i understand it correctly, beacon only means advertising with apple "rules"?

best regards,

Nils

[Nils Minor]

So, i had a look in BLE white papers where i could found, that there are some GAP roles for ble devices, like Broadcaster, Observer, Peripheral, Central.

So in my case i need to have a normal BLE connection between my device and a smartphone, so my device will work as Peripheral, right? And in this role i can advertise the data i want at time i want, right? But how can i also have the functionality of an observer so that i can read the advertised data from other devices? Does nordic provide this, it is equal to an product of the company CSR where they use this advertising <-> observing functionality .

Best regards, Nils :)