Pair with peripheral and continue Scanning?

[gdutk001]

Good afternoon, 

 I had a question regarding scanning and pairing. Is it possible for a peripheral device to send scan requests after its been paired? or does the device have to be a central device for it to pair and send scan requests concurrently? Id like to have a peripheral device paired with a phone and then have the peripheral read scan responses and send the data to a phone. is this possible solely with a peripheral, or should i make it a central?

 I am using sdk 15.2 nrf52840 board with softdevice 140 version 6.1 

 - thanks  

[AndreasF]

Hi Gianfranco.

A peripheral device does not send scan requests, central devices send scan requests.
When a peripheral device receives a scan request from a central device, the peripheral device responds with a scan response to the central device.

If you want to have a device thats pairing and sending out multiple scan requests you have to make this device a central.

- Andreas