S130 SoftDevice v1.0 alpha released - What do you guys think?

[John Leonard]

Our most advanced Bluetooth Smart SoftDevice to date released this week - S130. We're excited in a big way about this one covering as it does so many different options in one protocol stack.

Again, we always value feedback from you guys toiling hard out there making great and cool stuff that the world gets to see and use, or just making things because it's fun and cool. So please let us know here - what's great, what's not, improvements, tweaks, it's all great for us, and you in the long run.

cheers, John

[Nils Minor]

Hi,

i had a look in code example of S130 and it is pretty cool :) I love the possibility to to have a central and a periphery in one device, to have more degrees of freedom it is easier to build nice stuff :)

Is there any documentation about S130?

To handle DFU OTA i use same example like using S110 is this right?

Can i choose one of the three Advertising channels to send or to scan on, now there is only the possibility to send or scan on all three channels?

I want to use it for advertising and scanning data, to send my own data i can use adv_manuf_data but how can i use S130 to simply scan and save data in an array?

In futre i hope to build a great application with your chip i build one application in past and want to thank you guys for great support and great work.

Best regards,

Nils

[Anders Strand]

"I want to use it for advertising and scanning data, to send my own data i can use adv_manuf_data but how can i use S130 to simply scan and save data in an array?" Yes, this works very well even while advertising or being connected to a central. The basic algorithm is like this: 1. Start scanning 2. Handle the ble event: BLE_GAP_EVT_ADV_REPORT in the event_handler(). (note: this is called manually in the s130 demo app, not by interrupt. I use a timer to call it regularly). Get the advertising data from the ap_gap_evt->params.adv_report struct See the s120 example app for spesifics on how to do this in code

[Carles]

Hi there,

To handle DFU OTA it should be the same as for the S110, yes. You cannot choose the advertisement channel yet, this will come soon. You can scan and advertise at the same time, see Anders' comment for details.