How to advertise as non-connectable when using the advertising module?

RE: How to advertise as non-connectable when using the advertising module?

RVM — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 03:00:37 GMT

If anybody is still keeping track of this issue, then here is the URL to the documentation:

https://docs.nordicsemi.com/bundle/sdk_nrf5_v17.1.0/page/lib_ble_advertising.html

As you can see in the first paragraph:

The Advertising Module handles the BLE advertising of your application. You can use it for many typical "Connectable Advertising" scenarios, like most of the SDK examples.

RE: How to advertise as non-connectable when using the advertising module?

RVM — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:54:55 GMT

HI Simon

Feel free to mark this ticket as 'closed'.

Just to be clear, I will be using the 'advertising module' for connectable advertisements just not for the non-connectable variants.

Cheers
RMV

RE: How to advertise as non-connectable when using the advertising module?

RVM — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:52:51 GMT

Hi Simon

My question was specifically to the use of the 'advertising module' and I found out (after stepping through the code) that no matter how I set up the advertising property, the module overrides it to 'connectable, scannable'.

I think I will revert to setting up the advertisement using the SoftDevice API directly.

I wish the documentation had been clearer and more specific i.e. that the module WILL OVERRIDE the advertising flags -- would not have gone down this path three months back.

RMV

RE: How to advertise as non-connectable when using the advertising module?

Simonr — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:53:31 GMT

Can you provide a link to where you found this information? I think it is outdated, as I.E. the ble_app_beacon in SDK 16.0.0 is nonconnectable. You should be able to make any advertising device nonconnectable by changing the GAP advertising type to either BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_NONCONNECTABLE_SCANNABLE_UNDIRECTED or BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_NONCONNECTABLE_NONSCANNABLE_UNDIRECTED.

This is done in the advertising_init() function in our SDK example projects.

Best regards,

Simon