Completely Removing Device Name from adveritisng packet

[Ron]

Hey,

I am working on nRF51822, SDK12, S130, I wish to get more data into my advertising packet, however there is not enough space, I was thinking to COMPLETELY remove the device name, that way I will save not just the charachters of the device name string, but also the device name length byte and device name type byte. extra 2 bytes for manufacturer data..

Is this legitimate to do on BLE ?

Is it possible and how to do it?

Thanks!

[Turbo J]

Ron said:

COMPLETELY remove the device name

Possible, yes. Good idea, no: There are TONS of devices in a crowded city that don't have a name. Trying to find which one is yours would be very difficult for uses that need to manually pair/bond a device using default OS UI (e.g. Windows).

It would probably much simpler to put some data (like 128 Bit UUID) into the scan response. This extends advertisement data by 100% and is supported by SDK12.

[Ron]

Hey, 

Thanks for your answer,

My problem is that I wish to filter based on 128bit UUID, without Scan Response (extra time for back and forth packets and extra handling by mobile). iOS to my understanding are unable to filter based on Device Name or Company ID, iOS can filter only based on Service UUID, so Device Name actually just takes up space in the advertisement packet, forces me to use Scan Response.

I will be happy to hear what you think

Thanks and have a great day