periodic advertising

[Ridhi]

https://www.novelbits.io/bluetooth-5-advertisements/ i have followed this. want to know in simple words how periodic adv is helpful in contrast to simple advertising

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

Novel Bits have a good description of Periodic Advertisements here (search for "Periodic Advertisements"). In short periodic advertisements allows you to synchronize the advertiser and the observer so that the observer knows then the next advertisement packet comes etc. This is somewhat similar to data exchange in a connection, but with some major differences. Firs of all, it is still advertising, so no retransmission etc, so data loss will occur. Secondly, several observers can receive the same periodic advertisement packets.

[Ridhi]

Thankyou. 

Can you assist me in implementation example of BLE Extended advertisement in nrf52. https://blog.nordicsemi.com/getconnected/bluetooth-5-advertising-extensions is not helping much. Pls share some example where advertising extension is implemented in nrf52832/40

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

There are some examples of extended advertising in the nRF5 SDK, but please remember that extended advertising is a set of extensions. All are not supported. Specifically periodic advertising is not supported by the SoftDevice, so you cannot do it with the nRF5 SDK. If you use the nRF Connect SDK you can refer to the Bluetooth: Periodic Advertising sample.

[Ridhi]

i dont want to use zephyr actually... pls send me example of extended advertising in nrf52 sdk 17

[Einar Thorsrud]

The SoftDevice and nRF5 SDK does not support periodic advertising so that is not an option (assuming that is what you want when you use the board term extended advertising). The SoftDevice does support some other extended advertising features though, but then it is key to know which features you actually need.