RE: How to filter if a peripheral is a Beacon

RPDben — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:45:55 GMT

Hi Hung,

I am advertising using the iBeacon standard.

Your answer is clear and makes sense. I will add in my own filters on receipt of the BLE_GAP_EVT_ADV_REPORT event.

Thanks!

RE: How to filter if a peripheral is a Beacon

Hung Bui — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:20:11 GMT

Hi Ben,
Which beacon standard are you advertising with ?
There isn't a filter that the softdevice offer to filter out only "beacon" advertising packet.
The filtering should be done in the application. You need to catch BLE_GAP_EVT_ADV_REPORT event and then process the advertising packet to find the devices you are looking for.
If you use our scan module in the SDK, there are some filters offered (still it's in the application level) for example filter using UUID, advertising name, etc.

If the beacon has the data in manufacturer data you would need to parse that in your application to detect.