BLE beacons

[Roei]

Hi,

I want to use beacons in my application. I've noticed that there are 2 examples - beacons and eddystone. Which one should I use?

Thanks!

[awneil]

Have you looked at the descriptions of the examples?

Which one best fits your specific requirements?

[Roei]

Seems like ble beacons example contains regular advertisment.

Eddystone is a non connectable adversitment, which I think I need. Did I understand that correctly?

In addition - can I use eddystone advertisment as long as my application running, and use regular advertiament at the same time? Or it may be problematic?

Thanks!

[awneil]

All beacons do regular, non-connectable advertising - that is the whole point of a "beacon".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy_beacon

"Eddystone" is a particular beacon standard - from Google:

https://developers.google.com/beacons/eddystone

Apple have their own standard - called, unsurprisingly, "iBeacon":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBeacon

No doubt there are also other standards.

Perhaps you need to do dome more background reading on the subject of BLE beacons ... ?

[Roei]

Ok,

But anyway, I couldn't understand - is it possible to send beacon packets and advertise for connection at the same time?

Thanks!

[awneil]

With older Android versions, the connectable/non-connectable status wasn't available - so I don't think that anything should rely upon it ... ?

See: https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/45644/how-do-i-simply-do-a-non-connectable-advert-on-nrf52-using-sdk-15/186788#186788