How to send data while advertising with RedBear Blend/nRF8001

[DennisEB]

Hey ho, I'm new to BLE and Nordic. I'm a student from Germany and i want to realize one simple function with Arduino (RedBear Blend with nRF8001) and Android.

I want my Arduino to work like a beacon (i don't want to pair my Arduino with smartphone) and in addition while advertising send data (just one string which can be changed within Arduino program).

So it should work like this: Beacon sends continuously "hey, I'm here" with an string to my smartphone. If the smartphone is in range from the beacon and the smartphone app is working, the smartphone app should show me "hey, I'm here" with the string.

Is this possible with RedBear Blend / nRF8001 ? Or should I buy a nRF51288 ?

Can someone tell me what i have to write/change in the Arduino sketch that this is working?

Thanks a lot in advance and i apologize for my bad english skills.

Dennis

[Asbjørn]

There's a example in the nRF8001 Arduino SDK named "ble_broadcast" that will do exactly this. Doenload the SDK from here and have a look.