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Changing the representation of the BLE characteristic data

morpho

Is there a way to convert the data representation of the BLE characteristic into, say, strings?

Secondly, any way to debug as to why am I seeing more bytes than what i'm sending from my application? I am sending 6 bytes so 0x74-3D-31-31-32-43 and the rest isn't meaningful. 

Lastly, any way to set the service name? currently it says Unknown. Perhaps it would remain Unknown until the UUID is recognized by the central?

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  • 0 in reply to morpho
    morpho said:
    1. And if we were to create our own UUID to GAT client recognizes it, what'd be the procedure?

    As you write create your own UUID, that means make your own custom service. In this case it seems the server is on the nRF, so this tutorial would explain the nRF side of it. For the client on a mobile, you would need to implement your app so that it knows the mapping between the UUID and service and characteristics. This is typically something you always need to do for your Bluetooth apps.

    morpho said:
    How though? I'm sending char bytes and it's showing as hexa as you can see in the screenshot above

    The screenshot is from nRF Connect, which is a mobile app made by us. It only includes names for services and characteristics that we included. You can use others based on UUID for testing though, but in order to see names etc. you will need your own iOS/Android app that you must develop yourself.

  • 0 in reply to Einar Thorsrud
    Einar Thorsrud said:
    As you write create your own UUID, that means make your own custom service. In this case it seems the server is on the nRF, so this tutorial would explain the nRF side of it. For the client on a mobile, you would need to implement your app so that it knows the mapping between the UUID and service and characteristics. This is typically something you always need to do for your Bluetooth apps.

    Yes, I created my own service but that alone isn't enough for the client app to recognize the UUID as you mentioned. And there's no way to customize the nRF Connect app to do so?


    Einar Thorsrud said:
    The screenshot is from nRF Connect, which is a mobile app made by us. It only includes names for services and characteristics that we included. You can use others based on UUID for testing though, but in order to see names etc. you will need your own iOS/Android app that you must develop yourself.

    my main point of concern was the data representation for this question, and not the service name. So I guess that only needs to be modified in the implementation of the mobile app itself?

  • 0 in reply to morpho
    morpho said:
    Yes, I created my own service but that alone isn't enough for the client app to recognize the UUID as you mentioned. And there's no way to customize the nRF Connect app to do so?

    No, that is not configurable in the nRF Connect for mobile app. You will need to make your own app if you need it to recognize your custom service. Note that it is not needed for testing though, as you can read and write any characteristic of any service (known or unknown) in nRF Connect for mobile, so that should work as a development tool.

    morpho said:
    my main point of concern was the data representation for this question, and not the service name. So I guess that only needs to be modified in the implementation of the mobile app itself?

    Yes, the data representation also needs to be modified in the mobile app (when you send data in nRF Connect for mobile you can select data type, but currently not for receiving data. That is always displayed as a hex).

  • 0 in reply to Einar Thorsrud

    OK so basically what I want requires the development of an app itself.

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