Periodic Advertisement

[Mihir Tailor]

Hello,

I am using nRF52832 based development board (PCA10040) and softdevice v6.1.0.

I want to ask that does the feature of Periodic Advertisement of Bluetooth 5 depend on the SOC nRF52832 or softdevice v6.1.0 or both?

Thanks

[AmbystomaLabs]

The SoC is just an FSK transceiver with a processor, peripherals, etc.  It knows absolutely nothing about Bluetooth. Everything Bluetooth is part of the softdevice.

[Mihir Tailor]

Ok Thanks.

Now i got that periodic advertisement feature of Bluetooth 5 depends on the softdevice.

Does Softdevice 6.1.0 support the Periodic Advertisement feature?

[AmbystomaLabs]

Here is a blog entry on doing periodic advertisements on 52840.  Same should be true on 52832.

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../bluetooth-5-advertisements-extended-and-periodic-a

[AmbystomaLabs]

Periodic advertisments are part of the advertising extensions in BLE5. The extensions include advertising on all channels, bigger payloads and longer periods, among other things.

According to the release notes: The main new feature for s132_nrf52_6.1.0 compared to s132_nrf52_6.0.0 is the full support for all mandatory LE Advertising Extensions features.

I was unable to find specific examples doing periodic advertisements using S132 v6.1.

Here is another Nordic tutorial on the subject: blog.nordicsemi.com/.../bluetooth-5-advertising-extensions

[Mihir Tailor]

Thanks for sharing the information.

I reviewed the links provided by you, but there was no reference regarding periodic advertisement.

After that i searched for the features of Softdevice v6.1.0, i found the following features regarding LE Advertising Extensions from Nordic Semiconductor website:

Qualified and supported LE Advertising Extensions features:

• Long advertising packets
• Chained advertising packets
• Advertising and connection establishment on 2 Mbps and 1 Mbps

So there may be possibilities that periodic advertisement is not supported by softdevice v6.1.0

Here is the website link on which collected above information:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/nordic/Products/nRF52832/S132-SD-v6/67248

Further i want to listen from your side.

Waiting for reply

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Hi.

You are correct that the advertisement features depend on the softdevice.

Unfortunately the Softdevice s132 v6.1.0 does not support periodic advertisement, nor syncing to periodic advertisers. 

Best regards,
Joakim

[Mihir Tailor]

Ok Thanks for your support

[Joakim Jakobsen]

No problem. Happy to help!

[Mohammad Afaneh]

Hi, is there any update on support for Periodic Advertisements? Is it supported by the latest versions of the Softdevice and SDK?