SoftDevice automatically stop advertising on connection?

[brianreinhold]

Again, if the search engine in your documentation were decent, I would probably not need to ask this question here. The answer probably exists, but try an find it not knowing where it is!

The answer to this question appears to be yes, at least when using the pc-ble-driver, which uses only SoftDevice. In my pc-ble-driver based devices, the (connectable) advertising stops automatically on a connection event. At least I do not see it in a sniff and I do not explicitly call sd_ble_gap_adv_stop().

The question is, when I port this code over to the nRF51822 will I need to stop the advertisement myself calling sd_ble_gap_adv_stop(). or is it automatically done when receiving a connection event?

Suggestion: Turn you offline documentation into a single large pdf. A pdf has a great search engine. It might cut the number of posts to this site in half.

[Vidar Berg]

The question is, when I port this code over to the nRF51822 will I need to stop the advertisement myself calling sd_ble_gap_adv_stop(). or is it automatically done when receiving a connection event?

 It's stopped automatically when a connection is established. API documentation for reference: sd_ble_gap_adv_start

[brianreinhold]

Your reference says nothing about the fact that the connectable advertisement is automatically stopped on connection. I know the spec requires it but what I don't know is if I have to do it or whether SoftDevice does it. SoftDevice DOES give me the means to stop it myself.

Using the pc-ble-driver I have found out that the adv is automatically stopped.