Extended advertising support on nRF9160 with Zephyr

[Fredrik]

Hi,

Does the zephyr stack support scanning for extended advertising packets on the nRF9160?

I tried opening the lte_ble_gateway example in ncs v.1.1.0 and adding CONFIG_BT_CTLR_ADV_EXT=y to prj.conf, but I get the following warning:

warning: BT_CTLR_ADV_EXT (defined at subsys/bluetooth/controller/Kconfig:345) was assigned the value
'y' but got the value 'n'. You can check symbol information (including dependencies) in the
'menuconfig' interface (see the Application Development Primer section of the manual), or in the
Kconfig reference at
http://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/reference/kconfig/CONFIG_BT_CTLR_ADV_EXT.html (which is updated
regularly from the master branch). See the 'Setting configuration values' section of the Board
Porting Guide as well.

Following the zephyr configuration options, it seems CONFIG_BT_CTLR_ADV_EXT depends on BT_CTLR, but CONFIG_BT_H4 depends on !BT_CTLR. I'm not familiar enough with the way BLE works in the zephyr stack to untangle this contradiction.

Best,

Fredrik

[Øyvind]

Hello Fredrik, 

Can you please provide some information on what version of NCS and modem FW you are using?

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Øyvind

[Fredrik]

Hi Øyvind,

I'm on

• ncs tag v1.1.0 (stated in the original question)
• modem fw v1.1.0.

Best,

Fredrik

[Øyvind]

Fredrik said:

ncs tag v1.1.0 (stated in the original question)

Sorry, I missed that part. Will have a look at the case and back to you ASAP.

Kind regards,
Øyvind

[Fredrik]

No problem, thanks for your help!

Best,

Fredrik

[Øyvind]

Hi Fredrik, 

The extended advertising is not supported in NCS yet but is a feature presumably intended to be supported (no schedule given).

Kind regards,
Øyvind