NERF52832 having both beacon transmitter and receiver in a single chip

[AkshayEnmaz]

I want to have a single device that can both transmit and receive beacon packets using nrf52832. 

Project Idea

Need to identify RSSI level of beacons around a device while also advertising itself as-well 

Help required

1) Is it possible to realise the above in a single nrf52832, if not which ic would be better?

2) Any example code/documentation which explains the same

[AkshayEnmaz]

Specifically looking for ibeacon advertising and reading simultaneously. 

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

It would have been a very comprehensive SDK if it should include example code for every customer's use-case.

To save you some work, I have created an example combining the scanning from ble_app_beacon_c and advertising from ble_app_beacon example. It will report any advertising packet received, not just iBeacons. You must do the work to parse the advertising data to get the relevant packets for your use-case.

ble_app_beacon_scanner_advertiser_SDK16.0.0.zip

Best regards,
Jørgen

[AkshayEnmaz]

Thank you for your quick response. I went through the code but i dont see the scan initiated in main(). where exactly can i find the scan function?

Also i could not locate ble_app_beacon_c in the sdk is it available in any specific version of SDK?

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

AkshayEnmaz said:

I went through the code but i dont see the scan initiated in main(). where exactly can i find the scan function?

It is initialized and started right after advertising init in main():

    advertising_init();
    advertising_start();
    scan_init();
    // Start execution.
    NRF_LOG_INFO("Beacon scanner+advertiser example started.");
    scan_start();

AkshayEnmaz said:

Also i could not locate ble_app_beacon_c in the sdk is it available in any specific version of SDK?

Sorry, I intended to write ble_app_blinky_c.