Modify ble uart central to show all advertising ble uart peripherals and give option to connect/disconnect to/ from user's choice.

RE: Modify ble uart central to show all advertising ble uart peripherals and give option to connect/disconnect to/ from user's choice.

awneil — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:32:19 GMT

[quote userid="6462" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/48889/modify-ble-uart-central-to-show-all-advertising-ble-uart-peripherals-and-give-option-to-connect-disconnect-to-from-user-s-choice/194403"]In the embedded code, it's the Advertising Report event which tells you which devices have been "seen"[/quote]

So that's what you need to see all the units that are advertising.

Then you use that to send a list to you terminal, along with user prompts & instructions

Then you'll need to receive & handle the user responses.

The CLI library would be good for that user interface part.

Or, for an automated test, just iterate through the list ...

RE: Modify ble uart central to show all advertising ble uart peripherals and give option to connect/disconnect to/ from user's choice.

Robin — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:22:12 GMT

Hello awneil,

Thanks for the suggestions.

We already have the basic functionality working in our test code using the resources mentioned, but as you likely know, the the uart central only connects to the first advertiser it finds. So investing in a new project around either of these option seems overly ambitious. But again, thank you kindly for these suggestions.

Robin@TL

RE: Modify ble uart central to show all advertising ble uart peripherals and give option to connect/disconnect to/ from user's choice.

awneil — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 13:35:51 GMT

Could you not just use nRF Connect for this?

Or the pc-ble-driver - https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-ble-driver - and write a PC app?

In the embedded code, it's the Advertising Report event which tells you which devices have been "seen" ...

Nordic also have a CLI library:

https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.nordic.infocenter.sdk5.v15.0.0%2Fgroup__peer__manager.html

(used in some examples in the SDK)