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BLE connection times out on Central and Peripheral, both sides.

Central info
SDK: 15.3
nRF52840

Peripheral info
SDK: 13.1
nRF52832

Connection Param
MIN_CONN_INTERVAL MSEC_TO_UNITS 40
MAX_CONN_INTERVAL MSEC_TO_UNITS 52
SLAVE_LATENCY 3
CONN_SUP_TIMEOUT 1500


BLE connection times out on Central and Peripheral, both sides.
BLE dissconnect reason(0x8: BLE_HCI_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT).

The following threads describe Central and Peripheral, and the causes of timeouts on both sides.
devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../error-8-0x8-gatt-conn-timeout

>> Packet loss on air due to low RSSI or much noise or interference.
>> This can be handled by increasing the number of retransmissions,
>> which is achieved by increasing the supervision timeout (making it larger relative to the connection interval).
Is the set monitoring timeout time (15000ms) insufficient?

>> You should also avoid slave latency, or at least ensure that you still have a good margin if it is used.
Is it better to increase the slave latency value (3) that has been set?

>> Note that the central decides the connection parameters, so what you have configured may not be what is actually used.
>> Do you have a sniffer trace that shows the actual connection parameters of the link?
The sniffer confirms that the value is actually reflected.

>> Clock drift between the peers, making the event windows non-overlapping.
>> This should not happen as the clock accuracy is exchanged when the connection is established, and it is accounted for.
>> However, you sometimes see connections issues if the nRF has a bad clock source.
>> This could typically be a crystal with wrong load capacitor values,
>> or using the internal RC oscillator but configuring the SoftDevice to indicate a high accuracy.
I didn't know what to check.


The cause of a timeout is unknown and cannot be proceeded.
The timeout does not occur frequently and occurs about twice a day.
I want you to help me.

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