How to send additional data in eddystone protocol?

[Piyush_9536]

Is it possible to send additional data in eddystone protocol ?

If yes please do share a snap of code with me.

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

What do you mean by additional data? There is quite a lot of flexibility in the Eddystone protocol allready, and the Eddystone example in the nRF5 SDK implements everything in the protocol.

Note that Google discontinued Edystone in 2018, so depending on you ruse case it might not be the most suitable choice going forward.

[Piyush_9536]

additional data means like manufacturing data or scan response data i.e. if i want to advertise some more data

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

Manufacturer specific data and scan response data is allready used in the Eddystone implementation, but it is for Eddystone specific things. If you modify this you would break Eddystone compatibility.

Is the thing here that you really want another type of custom beacon (not Eddystone at all)? If you don't really want an Eddystone beacon the you can do whatever you want with your advertisement packets. If you want an Eddystone beacon and something else, then perhaps it would be better to alternate between sending Eddystone beaconpacekts and some other advertisement packets that you have full control over (and if so, it could be that another Eddystone sample would be a better starting point, depending on which Eddystone features you need).

[Piyush_9536]

That is what i wanted to implement but i don't know how to built my own packet and then advertising it.

[Einar Thorsrud]

Which of the alternatives I outlined is it you want to implement?

[Piyush_9536]

basically i want to advertise customized data packet for that i need to form a packet which contains the data i want to advertise and then advertise it

How to do that