We are developing using SDK 15.3.0 and S140. After I noticed that advertising stopped when a connection occurred, I was directed to simply restart upon connection. I have been doing so with largely successful results, but I recently noticed that (on rare occasion) advertising does not restart. This is 1 out of hundreds of connections when the central connecting device is Android, but far more frequent when the central connecting device is a Raspberry Pi 3B running Linux. I would like get an on_ble_evt handler in place and just restart advertising when notified that it has stopped or BLE_ADV_EVT_IDLE, but I cannot see how to set the ble_adv_event_handler_t when the advertising module is not used. I am setting up by advertising using the following code.
// Config advertising.
void xtag_adv_config(bool firstCall)
{
ret_code_t err_code;
// Setup var to hold ble_advdata_t advert data.
ble_advdata_t advdata;
memset(&advdata, 0, sizeof(advdata));
// Setup var to hold ble_advdata_t scan resp data.
ble_advdata_t srdata;
memset(&srdata, 0, sizeof(srdata));
// Just use srdata to indicate that we want to expose the name provided in gap_params_init().
srdata.name_type = BLE_ADVDATA_FULL_NAME;
// Setup variable to hold manufacturer specific advert data
ble_advdata_manuf_data_t mfr_advdata;
memset(&mfr_advdata, 0, sizeof(mfr_advdata));
// Update mfr_data and add to advdata.
uint8_t data[MFR_PAYLOAD_SIZE_GAP];
xtag_adv_mfr_data_setup(data);
mfr_advdata.company_identifier = 0x030E; //Dworx company ID
mfr_advdata.data.p_data = data;
mfr_advdata.data.size = sizeof(data);
advdata.name_type = BLE_ADVDATA_NO_NAME;
advdata.p_manuf_specific_data = &mfr_advdata;
advdata.include_appearance = true;
advdata.flags = BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_GENERAL_DISC_MODE;
advdata.uuids_complete.uuid_cnt = sizeof(m_adv_uuids) / sizeof(m_adv_uuids[0]);
advdata.uuids_complete.p_uuids = m_adv_uuids;
// Initialize advertising parameters (used when starting advertising).
memset(&m_adv_params, 0, sizeof(m_adv_params));
m_adv_params.properties.type = BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_CONNECTABLE_SCANNABLE_UNDIRECTED;
m_adv_params.p_peer_addr = NULL; // Undirected advertisement.
m_adv_params.filter_policy = BLE_GAP_ADV_FP_ANY;
m_adv_params.interval = APP_ADV_INTERVAL;
m_adv_params.duration = 0; // Never time out.
// Encode advdata to m_gapData[m_bufIdx]
err_code = ble_advdata_encode(&advdata, m_gapData[m_bufIdx].adv_data.p_data, (uint16_t *) &m_gapData[m_bufIdx].adv_data.len);
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
// Encode srdata to m_gapData[m_bufIdx]
err_code = ble_advdata_encode(&srdata, m_gapData[m_bufIdx].scan_rsp_data.p_data, (uint16_t *) &m_gapData[m_bufIdx].scan_rsp_data.len);
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
// Setup adverts. On first call, also set advert params.
if(firstCall)
{
err_code = sd_ble_gap_adv_set_configure(&m_adv_handle, &m_gapData[m_bufIdx], &m_adv_params);
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
err_code = sd_ble_gap_tx_power_set(BLE_GAP_TX_POWER_ROLE_ADV,m_adv_handle, xTag_get_tx_pwr());
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
}
else // Susequent calls - update payloady only.
{
err_code = sd_ble_gap_adv_set_configure(&m_adv_handle, &m_gapData[m_bufIdx], NULL);
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
}
// Toggle buffer index to toggle buffer used.
if(m_bufIdx == 0) {m_bufIdx ++;}
else {m_bufIdx = 0;}
}
Thanks in advance.
Mark J
