RE: Controlling advertising timing

Simonr — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:00:24 GMT

For your first "preliminary" question. The advertising timeout will reset whenever it stops advertising, so that shouldn't be what stops the advertising when you're waiting for the "remaining advertising" timer, this must be something else stopping your advertisement. Does the device perhaps connect to a central again? Option 2 should be basically what the SoftDevice handler does when "restarting" advertising.

I think something like what you explain here should be fine. Perhaps if you before restarting advertisements, you calculate the remaining advertising time, and set this to the "new" APP_ADV_DURATION, so it advertises for the remaining amount of time. Then after it times out, you can set the APP_ADV_DURATION back to 30 seconds.

Best regards,

Simon