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Learning how to implement long-range beacon

SDK 17.0.0/ Windows/nRF52840 DK/ SEGGER

Hi, I want to learn how to achieve the outcome of allowing the peripheral to advertise in the long-range and the Central DK to pick up the advertising packets without connection. I want to be able to mimic a scenario where there will be an accelerometer that will wake the chip on the peripheral up resulting in it being power on and broadcast the device name, the central will then be scanned to receive the device name and print that it has scanned the peripheral (on Putty).

At the moment I managed to run the long-range UART using Putty and to my knowledge both the peripheral and central connect. In the scenario I described above, I do not want a connection to happen.

I have no idea how to progress from the long-range UART example, what are the functions responsible for carrying out the tasks above both on the peripheral and central side. Thus, I would like to ask what kind of questions I should be asking/searching to achieve my goal. 

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