Device appearance / class of device

[Nick Pelis]

Hello--

On my Mac OSX system, an nRF51 DK loaded with the HID mouse example doesn't list as a mouse device (no mouse icon listed in the OS) when I start advertising. Instead, it shows up as a generic bluetooth device, although it does work as a mouse when I pair to it just fine. I've verified the appearance of the device is set to BLE_APPEARANCE_HID_MOUSE and I'm setting the include_appearance flag to true.

On a previous project involving Bluetooth 3, I had to modify the class of device field in the SDP database in order to control the appearance of the device so I thought perhaps the same thing is required for the sample mouse project as well? I looked around in the Nordic-provided code but I do not see anywhere where BLE_GAP_AD_TYPE_CLASS_OF_DEVICE is used (ble_advertising.c being the logical place).

Has anyone else encountered this issue with the appearance of the device?

Thanks!

[Nick Pelis]

UPDATE: I think this is just the way BLE mice work. I bought a couple of other off-the-shelf BLE mice and see the same symptoms. Interestingly in Android/Linux the device does show up as a mouse.