Is it possible to detect that the beacon is scanned?

[Adam]

Hi,

I'm using nRF51822 Beacon v1.1.0. Is it possible to detect that the beacon is being scanned? Is there any event generated during this process that I can catch?

[Asbjørn]

Beacons will never enter receive mode and hence it will never receive the scan request. Beacons are a specific type of advertisements. So it's not possible to send a scan request to a beacon.

However for other applications, currently there's no scan request event currently available in the softdevice for the nRF51 either. This is a feature we are working on and want to have available.

[Adam]

Thx for reply.

[Asbjørn]

I should correct myself. Beacons can of course have a receive window too. It all depends on the implementation, but normally they will only transmit.