Infinite advertising with SD 8.0.0

[Konrad Traczyk]

Hi,

Recently I updated my SoftDevice on beacon from 7.1.0 to 8.0.0. Unfortunately, I met the same problem with advertising timeout which I faced with in SD 7.1.0, but the solution which worked for the older SD: devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../ doesn't work for SD 8.0.0 anymore.

The question is: how to turn off advertising timeout in SD 8.0.0?

My advertising_init function:

static void advertising_init(void)
{
    uint32_t      err_code;
    ble_advdata_t advdata;
    uint8_t       flags = BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_GENERAL_DISC_MODE;//BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_LIMITED_DISC_MODE;

	
    ble_uuid_t adv_uuids[] = {{LBS_UUID_SERVICE, BLE_UUID_TYPE_BLE}};

    // Build and set advertising data
    memset(&advdata, 0, sizeof(advdata));

    advdata.name_type               = BLE_ADVDATA_FULL_NAME;
    advdata.include_appearance      = true;
    advdata.flags              = BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_GENERAL_DISC_MODE;
    advdata.uuids_complete.uuid_cnt = sizeof(adv_uuids) / sizeof(adv_uuids[0]);
    advdata.uuids_complete.p_uuids  = adv_uuids;

		ble_adv_modes_config_t options = {0};
    options.ble_adv_fast_enabled  = BLE_ADV_FAST_ENABLED;
    options.ble_adv_fast_interval = APP_ADV_INTERVAL;
    options.ble_adv_fast_timeout  = APP_ADV_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS;
    err_code = ble_advertising_init(&advdata, NULL, &options, on_adv_evt, NULL);
    APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
}

[Emil]

Thanks a lot Konrad, this worked.

Code:

static void ble_evt_dispatch(ble_evt_t * p_ble_evt)
{
    ble_conn_params_on_ble_evt(p_ble_evt);
    ble_nus_on_ble_evt(&m_nus, p_ble_evt);
    on_ble_evt(p_ble_evt);

	if (p_ble_evt->header.evt_id == BLE_GAP_EVT_TIMEOUT)
		ble_advertising_start(BLE_ADV_MODE_FAST);
	else
		ble_advertising_on_ble_evt(p_ble_evt);
    bsp_btn_ble_on_ble_evt(p_ble_evt);
}

[shin]

Hi. I added RTT_printf as the first statement in ble_evt_dispatch function because of tracing ble events. As result, when advertising timeout with APP_ADV_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS happened, the ble_evt_dispatch function was not called back. So, infinite advertising cannot be configured with the above code. Please let me know how to get advertising timeout event. Thanks.