I am creating a peripheral and central. The peripheral is done and appears to work fine. The central is in progress. It will use the serial port to communicate with a host computer system. One of the things that it has to communicate is the MAC address of the peripheral (printed on the outside of the peripheral's BMD-350) when an advertising packet is received. The host will then decide to connect of not.
So far, I can communicate with the host over the serial port just fine, but I'm not sure I understand how to get the MAC address of the peripheral.
I'm using the BMD-350 on a peripheral and the data sheet says the lower three bytes of the MAC address are printed on the chip. Take a look here https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Rigado%20PDFs/BMD-350_v2.0_1-22-19.pdf on page 12.
What I get in the advertising report (ble_gap_evt_adv_report_t), member peer_addr, doesn't match what is on the outside of the radio. Nor can I find anything in the advertising packet that matches that address. Is this the MAC address or some other address. If not, how can I get the MAC address.
The value of peer_addr is F712931CF0EB (byte 5 -> byte 0). What is printed on the outside of the chip is AE509162. I was expecting to see the 0x50, 0x91 and 0x62 somewhere in the peer address.
I'm using nRF5_SDK_16. For the central, I'm using the Rigado BMD-300 series evaluation kit. The peripheral is custom hardware using a BMD-350.
Thanks.
