Continuous advertising issue with hid app

[vn2000]

In some other non-hid app, I can set APP_ADV_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS to zero and it worked fine. The advertising is continuous.

But in the ble_app_hids_mouse, I set both APP_ADV_FAST_DURATION and APP_ADV_SLOW_DURATION to be equal to zero, and it no longer advertised. 

Please advise how can I get a continuous advertisement in ble_app_hids_mouse.

[ovrebekk]

Hi

the ble_app_hids_mouse example uses the ble_advertising module, which doesn't support infinite timeout. 

Instead it goes through a number of advertising states, as described in the documentation. 

If you want the example to stay in the slow advertising mode forever a simple way to change the BLE_ADV_EVT_IDLE case in the on_adv_evt(..) handler like this (line 846 of main.c in the ble_app_hids_mouse example):

case BLE_ADV_EVT_IDLE:
    err_code = bsp_indication_set(BSP_INDICATE_IDLE);
    APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

    ble_advertising_start(&m_advertising, BLE_ADV_MODE_SLOW);
    APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
    //sleep_mode_enter();
    break;

Then the advertising module will restart slow advertising as soon as it times out, and keep going forever (or until someone connects). 

Best regards
Torbjørn

[vn2000]

Thank you Torbjørn. That works for me!