non-connectable advertising while connected on SDK15.3

[kreis]

Hello,

I'm using SDK15.3 and trying to do a non-connectable advertising while connected. 

For that I set my adv package as non-connectable, however, when I run the function sd_ble_gap_adv_start I always receive the error 0x3004.

        case BLE_GAP_EVT_CONNECTED:
            NRF_LOG_INFO("Connected");
            bsp_board_led_on(CONNECTED_LED);
            bsp_board_led_off(ADVERTISING_LED);
            m_conn_handle = p_ble_evt->evt.gap_evt.conn_handle;
            err_code = nrf_ble_qwr_conn_handle_assign(&m_qwr, m_conn_handle);
            APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
            advertising_update();
            advertising_start();
            break;

Based on my research on the forum I know it's possible to do non-connectable advertising while connected, at least in older versions of the SDK. I had a hard time to implement the advertising update in this SDK but now it's working fine, the error occurs simply by calling the function advertising_start while I'm connected.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Thank you very much.

[awneil]

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/49872/advertise-connected-when-connected/198912#198912

[kreis]

Hi awneil!

Thank you very much for your prompt help.

I spent some time trying to make it work but it didn't. Actually this is the approach I was trying to before.

As far as I understood the SDK15 returns an error when I call the function sd_ble_gap_adv_set_configure, which is necessary to change the advertising to non-connectable, inside the BLE_GAP_EVT_CONNECTED it returns the error code 7.

I've gone through this same problem when trying to update the contents of the advertising package, but in that case, I found a workaround in the forum where there was no need to call the function sd_ble_gap_adv_set_configure. For the current problem it does not work.

Thank you.

[tesc]

Hi,

You still prepare and send in scan response data (see the srdata variable), which is not needed when you do non-scannable advertising. I do not have time to test now, but I suspect that might give invalid parameter error.

Edit: Removed paragraph mentioning static memory for advertising data, as I realized you used static memory for that.

Regards,
Terje

[awneil]

tesc said:

I do not have time to test now, but I suspect that might give invalid parameter error.

Yes, I think this error code includes, "this particular combination of parameters is not allowed" ? 

[kreis]

Hi,

I tested here and it worked! In that case I changed the advertising type to a scannable one and that passed.

I needed to update the other part of the code as well so for reference I'm posting the updated code here.

static void advertising_init(bool connectable)
{
    ret_code_t    err_code;
    ble_advdata_t advdata;
    ble_advdata_t srdata;

    ble_uuid_t adv_uuids[] = {{LBS_UUID_SERVICE, m_lbs.uuid_type}};

    // Build and set advertising data.
    memset(&advdata, 0, sizeof(advdata));

    advdata.name_type          = BLE_ADVDATA_FULL_NAME;
    advdata.include_appearance = true;
    advdata.flags              = BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_GENERAL_DISC_MODE;


    memset(&srdata, 0, sizeof(srdata));
    srdata.uuids_complete.uuid_cnt = sizeof(adv_uuids) / sizeof(adv_uuids[0]);
    srdata.uuids_complete.p_uuids  = adv_uuids;

    err_code = ble_advdata_encode(&advdata, m_adv_data.adv_data.p_data, &m_adv_data.adv_data.len);
    APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

    err_code = ble_advdata_encode(&srdata, m_adv_data.scan_rsp_data.p_data, &m_adv_data.scan_rsp_data.len);
    APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

    ble_gap_adv_params_t adv_params;

    // Set advertising parameters.
    memset(&adv_params, 0, sizeof(adv_params));

    if(connectable)
    {
      adv_params.properties.type = BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_CONNECTABLE_SCANNABLE_UNDIRECTED;
      adv_params.interval        = APP_ADV_INTERVAL;
    }
    else
    {
      adv_params.properties.type = BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_NONCONNECTABLE_SCANNABLE_UNDIRECTED;
      adv_params.interval        = 320;
    }
    adv_params.primary_phy     = BLE_GAP_PHY_1MBPS;
    adv_params.duration        = APP_ADV_DURATION;
    adv_params.p_peer_addr     = NULL;
    adv_params.filter_policy   = BLE_GAP_ADV_FP_ANY;
    
    err_code = sd_ble_gap_adv_set_configure(&m_adv_handle, &m_adv_data, &adv_params);
    NRF_LOG_INFO("error code: %x", err_code);
    APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
}

//---------------------------------

case BLE_GAP_EVT_CONNECTED:
    NRF_LOG_INFO("Connected");
    bsp_board_led_on(CONNECTED_LED);
    bsp_board_led_off(ADVERTISING_LED);
    m_conn_handle = p_ble_evt->evt.gap_evt.conn_handle;
    err_code = nrf_ble_qwr_conn_handle_assign(&m_qwr, m_conn_handle);
    APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
    err_code = app_button_enable();
    APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

    advertising_init(false);
    advertising_start();
    break;

case BLE_GAP_EVT_DISCONNECTED:
    NRF_LOG_INFO("Disconnected");
    bsp_board_led_off(CONNECTED_LED);
    m_conn_handle = BLE_CONN_HANDLE_INVALID;
    err_code = app_button_disable();
    APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

    advertising_stop();
    advertising_init(true);
    advertising_start();
    break;

Thank you all for your help!

[awneil]

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[testsweng]

what is your peripheral_link count set to in sdk_config.h?