RE: how to read the target device name and address in s120,nrf51

Stefan Birnir Sverrisson — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 08:57:23 GMT

Sorry for a very late response. Not sure if my response will be useful by now, but I will give it a try.

The p_ble_evt->evt.gap_evt.params.adv_report.data struct contains the advertising data so if you comment that out you will not get any advertising data in adv_data.p_data.

The complete local name is then parsed and put into type_data.

I have quickly seen the name in the debugger with defining an array and copying the name into the array, with the following code:

        uint8_t complete_name[20];

        // Initialize advertisement report for parsing.
        adv_data.p_data = p_ble_evt->evt.gap_evt.params.adv_report.data;
        adv_data.data_len = p_ble_evt->evt.gap_evt.params.adv_report.dlen;

        err_code = adv_report_parse(BLE_GAP_AD_TYPE_COMPLETE_LOCAL_NAME,
                                  &adv_data,
                                  &type_data);
        memcpy(complete_name, type_data.p_data, type_data.data_len);

Then if I set a breakpoint after the memcpy line and add complete_name to a watch window, then I can see the whole name in the watch window.