Advertising on 2 different MAC adresses (iBeacon and Eddystone)

[KEOPS]

Hi,

i'am using nRF52840 (S140 v 5.0.2-alpha) DK and SDK 14.2.

i'am trying to create an application for Beacon which can advertise on 2 different MAC adresses, is it possible for nRF52 ? 

if yes, i want to advertise ibeacon format on the first MAC adress and eddystone format on the second one.

So, Someone have an idea how to do it ? something like using TIMESLOT API and Softdevice API at the same time.....

thanks, 

regards

[Kenneth]

Hi,

I believe you are on the right track here already, so can only confirm what you write. Using for instance the softdevice for the connectable advertisement (eddystone) and timeslot for the non-connectable advertisment (ibeacon) seems like a good idea. There is a blog post and and SDK example in nRF5 SDK v10 that you may find useful to get started:

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/tutorials/b/software-development-kit/posts/setting-up-the-timeslot-api 

and in SDKv10 see: \examples\ble_peripheral\experimental_ble_app_multiactivity_beacon\hrs_advertiser
(don't use SDKv11)

Unfortunately there is no such example for the latest nRF5 SDK releases.

[KEOPS]

Hi, thanks for reply, now i secceeded to migrate  the  \nRF5_SDK_11.0.0_89a8197\examples\ble_peripheral\experimental_ble_app_multiactivity_beacon\hrs_advertiser example to nrf52 and i can advertise ibeacon  format (with Timeslot) after being connected eddystone (with sofdevice), but when i try to start advertising  both format, it seems like eddystone only advertise (check it with nrf connect), is it possible to advertise both format at the same time ? 

thanks,

[Kenneth]

Good to hear! What is the advertisement interval for the eddystone?

[KEOPS]

1000 ms and 300 ms for ibeacon