RE: Trying to setup a simple Ble beacon on a PCA10040 and a sniffer on another PCA10040

tesc — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:52:31 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for pointing us to that other thread!

Regards,
Terje

RE: Trying to setup a simple Ble beacon on a PCA10040 and a sniffer on another PCA10040

leonwj — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 22:37:27 GMT

hello Chris,

It looks like you may want to follow the advice from Rick Chung over on this thread... after experiencing the same issue, Rick's fix worked for me but with the following caveats:

1- although I started seeing ble adverts, the __LOG_XB(..) call displayed the following:

<t:          0>, main.c,  162, ----- Bluetooth Mesh Beacon Example -----
<t:      56256>, main.c,  135, Initializing and adding models
<t:      61115>, main.c,  190, Initialization complete!
<t:      62138>, main.c,   85, RX [@179836]: RSSI: d ADV TYPE: ffffffba ADDR: [2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x]: 1EFF06000109200036283F707E3EE9AE3C35044EAD0DE498BD2822DBB8A4CB
<t:      62846>, main.c,   85, RX [@201435]: RSSI: d ADV TYPE: ffffffc2 ADDR: [2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x]: 031900000201061107ABD0F555EB40E7B2AC49DDEB83D32BA205FF04001B80
<t:      63667>, main.c,   85, RX [@226503]: RSSI: d ADV TYPE: ffffffe0 ADDR: [2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x]: 0201041AFF590002150112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFF001020304C3
<t:      64920>, main.c,   85, RX [@264847]: RSSI: d ADV TYPE: ffffffa4 ADDR: [2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x]: 02011A0BFF4C000906026A0A000049

with incorrect values for the rssi, adv type and dev addr.

2- By implementing the following patch:

    (void) sprintf(msg, "Rx: [@%u] - rssi: %d - Adv Type: %d - Channel: %d - Addr: [0x%p:%p:%p:%p:%p:%p] - ",
                   p_rx_data->p_metadata->params.scanner.timestamp,
                   p_rx_data->p_metadata->params.scanner.rssi,
                   p_rx_data->adv_type,
                   p_rx_data->p_metadata->params.scanner.channel,
                   (void*)p_rx_data->p_metadata->params.scanner.adv_addr.addr[5],
                   (void*)p_rx_data->p_metadata->params.scanner.adv_addr.addr[4],
                   (void*)p_rx_data->p_metadata->params.scanner.adv_addr.addr[3],
                   (void*)p_rx_data->p_metadata->params.scanner.adv_addr.addr[2],
                   (void*)p_rx_data->p_metadata->params.scanner.adv_addr.addr[1],
                   (void*)p_rx_data->p_metadata->params.scanner.adv_addr.addr[0]);

The log is then displayed as follows:

<t:          0>, main.c,  179, ----- Bluetooth Mesh Beacon Example -----
<t:        296>, main.c,  152, Initializing and adding models
<t:       5193>, main.c,  207, Initialization complete!
<t:       5546>, main.c,  102, Rx: [@158134] - rssi: -62 - Adv Type: 0 - Channel: 38 - Addr: [0xe9:b4:0e:bd:ac:7b] - : 031900000201061107ABD0F555EB40E7B2AC49DDEB83D32BA205FF04001B80
<t:       6191>, main.c,  102, Rx: [@177828] - rssi: -73 - Adv Type: 2 - Channel: 38 - Addr: [0x05:76:32:40:e1:cd] - : 1EFF0600010920001D8F3249D07FC70A7D52891320E44AA6F4E5ACB1683B20
<t:       7591>, main.c,  102, Rx: [@220565] - rssi: -32 - Adv Type: 2 - Channel: 38 - Addr: [0x3d:9e:21:4b:73:c9] - : 0201041AFF590002150112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFF001020304C3
<t:       9591>, main.c,  102, Rx: [@281579] - rssi: -74 - Adv Type: 2 - Channel: 38 - Addr: [0x05:76:32:40:e1:cd] - : 1EFF0600010920001D8F3249D07FC70A7D52891320E44AA6F4E5ACB1683B20
<t:       9815>, main.c,  102, Rx: [@288443] - rssi: -62 - Adv Type: 0 - Channel: 38 - Addr: [0xf8:8f:01:7a:e4:8e] - : 0201061AFF4C0002150112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFF026682C6EC3
<t:      11008>, main.c,  102, Rx: [@324838] - rssi: -32 - Adv Type: 2 - Channel: 38 - Addr: [0x3d:9e:21:4b:73:c9] - : 0201041AFF590002150112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFF001020304C3
<t:      12482>, main.c,  102, Rx: [@369825] - rssi: -60 - Adv Type: 0 - Channel: 38 - Addr: [0xe9:b4:0e:bd:ac:7b] - : 031900000201061107ABD0F555EB40E7B2AC49DDEB83D32BA205FF04001B80
<t:      12949>, main.c,  102, Rx: [@384081] - rssi: -74 - Adv Type: 2 - Channel: 38 - Addr: [0x05:76:32:40:e1:cd] - : 1EFF0600010920001D8F3249D07FC70A7D52891320E44AA6F4E5ACB1683B20
<t:      14315>, main.c,  102, Rx: [@425766] - rssi: -31 - Adv Type: 2 - Channel: 38 - Addr: [0x3d:9e:21:4b:73:c9] - : 0201041AFF590002150112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFF001020304C3

You should also be able to detect the beacons for Nordic Semi Mesh & the nRF Beacon via the nRF Connect app.

Regards,

RE: Trying to setup a simple Ble beacon on a PCA10040 and a sniffer on another PCA10040

tesc — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:45:06 GMT

Hi,

I just tested the example and find it not to report any advertisements. Further, I cannot see any advertisements beaconed from it either. I do get the following logs, but nothing more:

<t:          0>, main.c, 161, ----- Bluetooth Mesh Beacon Example -----
<t:        288>, main.c, 135, Initializing and adding models
<t:       5175>, main.c, 189, Initialization complete!

Can you confirm that this is the same as what you experience?

I did not manage to find other reports of the same issue, which is a bit strange given that 1.0.1 has been out for some time now. Perhaps we have both missed some detail somewhere. In any case I have sent a request to the Mesh team to look into this issue. Hopefully they will be able to give us an answer quite quickly.

Regards,
Terje