Connectable beacon

[Wim]

In the nRF5 SDK v15.0.0 there is an example for beacon. (in my case ble_app_beacon_pca10040_s132)

This example works fine and acts as a non-connectable unidirected beacon.

But I am looking for a connectable beacon. (Acts as a beacon, but can also be connected to retrieve other data).

Is there an example software available?

[Mttrinh]

Hi,

We don't have any examples that does exactly this. You can change the advertising type to connectable in advertising init if you want to allow connections. 

[Wim]

Hi Mttrinh,

I changed the line

   m_adv_params.properties.type = BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_NONCONNECTABLE_NONSCANNABLE_UNDIRECTED;

to:

   m_adv_params.properties.type = BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_CONNECTABLE_SCANNABLE_UNDIRECTED;

But that is not sufficient, because it gives the error (through the USB-commport):

<info> app: Beacon example started.

<error> app: Fatal error

<warning> app: System reset

And it does not send any BLE message.

To my impression, there is a lot more to change. But I hope somebody else already invented this wheel.