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Advertising flags choice

Need advice on choice of  advertisement flags.

Beacon advertises alert and non alert beacons:  On the alert beacons the central is required to connect and respond to the beaconing device.

Non alert the central reads the scan report only.

There can be up to 15 beaconing devices advertising at a time both alert and non alert modes.

I am using scan request and delaying the connection start so that the scan reports show up.  Then I have the beacon device turn off advertising.

But my question is:  Would it be easier when there is NO alert to advertise non connectable and when there is an alert to advertise connectable.

No alert - BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_NONCONNECTABLE_SCANNABLE_UNDIRECTED

Alert BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_CONNECTABLE_SCANNABLE_UNDIRECTED

Thanks for your help

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