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?

[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?

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Hi. 

I'm afraid that Periodic Advertisements is not supported in the latest version (SDK v.16 at writing time). 

Any questions related to future releases or the roadmap should be directed to the Nordic RSM for your area. 

Best regards, 
Joakm Jakobsen 

[Mohammad Afaneh]

Ok, thanks for the update.