BLE Central device functionalities

RE: BLE Central device functionalities

beemavishnu — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:54:01 GMT

Thank you for your inputs.

RE: BLE Central device functionalities

Simonr — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:39:55 GMT

1. Yes, as long as the address is part of the advertisement this shouldn't be a problem.

2. The ble_app_interactive example shouldn't be printing ASCII values. Please follow the setup and testing guide here, and see if you're able to make it work as intended.

Best regards,

Simon

RE: BLE Central device functionalities

beemavishnu — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:08:46 GMT

Thank you Simon.

1) In AltBeacon, device name will not be populated as part of Advertisement packet. So I need to filter based on MAC address. So in this case can I use SCAN_ADDR_FILTER ?

2) In Interactive example all details are printed on Terminal in ASCII format. Whether can I disable the response in ASCII format and directly pass the response over uart to my application.

Thanks & Regards

Vishnu Beema

RE: BLE Central device functionalities

Simonr — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:45:30 GMT

Hi Vishnu

a) You can take a look at how to create a list of the advertising devices in the SDK\examples\ble_central_and_peripheral\experimental\ble_app_interactive example, which does so with the device_to_list_add() function in ble_m.c.

b) What would be the problem by using the SCAN_NAME_FILTER to find AltBeacon format devices? I'm not sure I follow here.

2. No, a the SCAN_ADDR_FILTER and a whitelist are not exactly the same. This is very well explained by my colleague in this case.

3. What exactly are you struggling with regarding the interactive example? You can check out this case which has a good discussion on the matter.

Best regards,

Simon