RE: Reading Beacon UUID 128 bit

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 12:00:48 GMT

Hi Richard,

You get the full advertising payload from the SoftDevice, so you can parse the packet to get all the information you want. As the iBeacon format is fully defined by Apple it makes sense to parse that yourself. You can refer to the packet format here (or get Proximity Beacon Specification R1.pdf from Apple).

To actually get the data so that you can parse them, you need to handle the BLE_GAP_EVT_ADV_REPORT event when scanning. There you get a pointer to a ble_gap_evt_adv_report_t instance, which has the address, RSSI as well as the full payload.

Einar