HID advertise, Beacon advertise and scanner program at the same time

RE: HID advertise, Beacon advertise and scanner program at the same time

Petter Myhre — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:34:20 GMT

Great that you got it working :)

RE: HID advertise, Beacon advertise and scanner program at the same time

alikob — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:32:43 GMT

Hi Petter, Yes the board came up with both HID advertising and beacon broadcasting iOS id 0x4C, I left HID advertsing timer intact, used the example as it is. I could easily connect and pair to it with iphone, and then as soon as I brought another ibeacon board with correct Major and Minor value close to this board, this board LED starts blinking, as it should by recognizing the 2 values in scanner handler routine. Again worked perfect. So all 3 feature are on. The important part for me was to keep beacon broadcasting and scanner ON 100%.

RE: HID advertise, Beacon advertise and scanner program at the same time

Petter Myhre — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:08:03 GMT

Ok. How aggressive was your scanning? Did you give the advertisers time to do their thing?

RE: HID advertise, Beacon advertise and scanner program at the same time

alikob — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:00:53 GMT

Hi Petter, Thanks for response, and YES you are absolutely correct, for scanning I just used SoftDevice call, and worked perfect. but for beacon it did not work, it was interfering with advertising packet when they are both broadcasting.

RE: HID advertise, Beacon advertise and scanner program at the same time

Petter Myhre — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:11:04 GMT

It seems to me you can use the SoftDevice to do all this, and not use the timeslot. It doesn't alternate between HID and beacon advertisements automatically, but should be pretty easy to switch between them with a timer. Anyways, both ways works I guess.

But are you sure you need to scan in the timeslot? Can't you just scan with the SoftDevice?

If you must scan in timeslot, it is very difficult to say what isn't working here. Have you tried to debug? Are you getting any errors? See this for more information.