Mesh SDK Beacon example not working?

[SørenHN]

I have problems getting the beacon example in the new mesh SDK v0.10.0 working. I invoke cmake with this command:

cmake -DTOOLCHAIN=gccarmemb -DPLATFORM=nrf51422_xxAC -DBOARD=pca10028 -DSOFTDEVICE=s130_2.0.1 ..

And program the device with these commands:

nrfjprog -f NRF51 --program ../../../external/softdevice/s130_2.0.1/s130_nrf51_2.0.1_softdevice.hex --chiperase --verify
nrfjprog -f NRF51 --program beaconing_nrf51422_xxAC_s130_2.0.1.hex --verify
nrfjprog -f NRF51 --reset

With J-Link RTT Viewer i can see the program is running fine, but it does not advertise anything.

I can get the light switching example work with the same commands, but not the beacon example.

Are there anybody else with the same problem? And am i doing something wrong or is there a bug in the program?

[Thomas Stenersen]

Hi Søren,

You're right, there is a bug. In v0.10.0 we introduced completely new bearer layer and with it an API change that wasn't picked up in the example. You have to enable the advertiser explictly.

To fix it, add the following to the beaconing/src/main.c:

static void start_advertiser(void)
{
    advertiser_enable(&m_advertiser);

Thanks for reporting the issue. I'll report it internally and we'll get it fixed in the next release.

Best,
Thomas

[Thomas Stenersen]

Yes, you would need to enable the advertiser manually. The beaconing example is in fact demonstrating how simple it is to interact with what's really a very low-level API. You're making a your own instance of an advertiser -- and you can have several if you'd like to :) The mesh stack itself is using one instance to do the transmission of the mesh packets, it's in the mesh/core/src/core_tx.c module.

Best,
Thomas