app_beacon - Change transmit period after certain amount of time?

[mstewart]

Our beacons are going into production, and to make function tests faster for our manufacturer we would like to transmit our beacon UUID, major, minor at a rate of 760ms for the first 2 minutes, and then transmit for 5000 ms thereafter.  

Can the Non_connectable_adv_interval be manipulated inside of int main?  Or should this be done another way?

[AmbystomaLabs]

You just need to stop advertising, then re-init advertising with the new period, then start advertising again. 

Just use a timer to drive your 2 minute window.

Nothing more.

[mstewart]

Thank you, that worked perfectly:

// main loop from app_beacon example, just needed to add additional NON_CONNECTABLE_ADV_INTERVAL and a separate init function

int i;
for (i=0; i<30; i++)
{
if (NRF_LOG_PROCESS() == false)
{
power_manage();
}
}
sd_ble_gap_adv_stop();
advertising_init();
advertising_start();
for(;;)
{
if (NRF_LOG_PROCESS() == false)
{
power_manage();
}
}
}