Hung up on advertising

[Lee Daniel Crocker]

I'm migrating an old (but working) app from the S110 5.2.1 (SDK 4.X) to the latest SDK9/S110 8.0. I've read the migration doc, and I'm following the examples carefully (specifically app_hids_keyboard, app_uart, and app_hrs). All my init functions are happy: timer, scheduler (with the new APPSH stuff), softdevice (using SOFTDEVICE_HANDLER_APPSH_INIT), everything comes up nicely. Scheduler works.

Then, I call ble_advertising_start(), I get a single BLE_ADV_EVT_FAST, then never another event of any kind. My phone can't see it advertising like it used to, and I never get any errors or anything--just quiet.

The major difference I noticed with my old code is that is has the sec_params_init() and responds to BLE_GAP_EVT_SEC_INFO_REQUEST, while most of the demos respond to that with a BLE_GAP_SEC_STATUS_PAIRING_NOT_SUPP. I never get that event in any case. I noticed that the device manager seems to make those similar security settings, but when I add it into the mix, I don't even get the first advertising event I was getting.

I'm really at a loss what to look for to debug this: If I get errors, I can see them; if I get events, I can see them. But I'm getting nothing.

[Lee Daniel Crocker]

Yes, everything returns success. Here's my ble_stack_init:

void bluetooth_init(void) {
    softdevice_init(); // does SOFTDEVICE_HANDLER_APPSH_INIT
    sd_ble_gap_tx_power_set(4);
    pstorage_init();
    device_manager_init(true);

    gap_params_init();
    services_init();
    advertising_init(); // does ble_advertising_init()
    conn_params_init();
    radio_notification_init();
}

and main():

int main(void) {
    hardware_init();
    scheduler_init();
    timers_init();

    bluetooth_init();
    timers_start();
    advertise(); // does sd_ble_gap_adv_start()

    TRACE("main_loop_start");
    while (1) {
        app_sched_execute();
        power_manage(); // does sd_app_evt_wait()
    }
}