Read UID and RSSI without manual connection

[wklimann]

Hello,

I need to read the UID and later on also the RSSI value of devices (Handys) in range. It should be reading the values automatically without the need of manual connecting. If some known device is recognized I want to trigger a task.

I think that I should use a BLE-Peripheral and not a BLE-Central am I right?

It would be great if someone could recommend a good starting-point example or necessary API calls.

Thanks in Advance

[Hung Bui]

Hi wklimann,

Could you elaborate more on the application? By "Handys" do you mean the phones/tablets or it's the nRF51 device ?

If you want to just detect the MAC Adress and RSSI without establishing a connection, you can just scan for advertising packet. It's similar to beacon application.