How do I make receiver application which scans the beacons in the vicinity ?

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I have developed a beacon application which transmits the required data from an analog device. I want one more application which scans the transmitted information from the transmitter beacon . So basically we can call it as multiple beacon scanner or receiver . Is there any document related to this task ?

Einar Thorsrud · Accepted Answer

Hi, 
 Jaydev Borkar said: So u mean I need to add ble_advertising.c , ble_conn_state.c , ble_db_discovery.c from ble_app_multilink central in my receiver project ? 
 I do not see why you would need to add these files for a simple scanner. I am not 100% sure what you are asking for. If you want a very simple BLE scanner example, you can refer to for instance this post . This does not use the SDK can module, so you have to do filtering yourself (which may be simpler). 
 Jaydev Borkar said: My beacon name shows N/A(Nordic) . What do I give as input for scanning device name ? 
 You can filter on any information that is in the advertising packet. If you put the name (which you have not done in this case), then you can filter on that. Or you can filter on some UUID. Or you can filter on MAC address. Or just some other part of the advertising data that makes sense in your case. It is application dependent and up to you.

awneil · Answer

That would be a Central in BLE terms - so look at the BLE Central examples in the SDK ...

How do I make receiver application which scans the beacons in the vicinity ?

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