How does a large file get transfered over BLE?

[KKaushik]

I am working on an e-paper display with Bluefruit nRF52832. I need to transfer a large image bitmap over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).

As BLE can send 255 bits at once, how can I achieve this?

The bitmap I want to transfer has the below format. I have two of these files to transfer over BLE for the same image: one for its B/W, one for its R/W color mapping.

uint8_t bfile[4001] = {
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I found receiving code from phone to Bluefruit nRF52832 module, but I don't know how to convert the same bitmap file to send over BLE through another nRF52 module in a master-slave configuration.

Code for receiving the image file from the phone is:

/*********************************************************************
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*********************************************************************/

#include <bluefruit.h>
//#include <SPI.h>
#include <Adafruit_GFX.h>
#include "Adafruit_EPD.h"

/* This sketch demonstrates the "Image Upload" feature of Bluefruit Mobile App.
 * Following TFT Display are supported
 *  - https://www.adafruit.com/product/4428
 */

#define EINK_GIZMO          1

// one of above supported TFT add-on
#define DISPLAY_IN_USE      EINK_GIZMO

#define EPD_CS      4
#define EPD_DC      3
#define SRAM_CS     -1 // not in use
#define EPD_RESET   2 // can set to -1 and share with microcontroller Reset!
#define EPD_BUSY    5 // can set to -1 to not use a pin (will wait a fixed delay)

Adafruit_SSD1680 display(250, 122, EPD_DC, EPD_RESET, EPD_CS, SRAM_CS, EPD_BUSY);

// Declaring Uart over BLE with large buffer to hold image data
// Depending on the Image Resolution and Transfer Mode especially without response
// or Interleaved with high ratio. You may need to increase this buffer size
BLEUart bleuart(10*1024);

/* The Image Transfer module sends the image of your choice to Bluefruit LE over UART.
 * Each image sent begins with
 * - A single byte char '!' (0x21) followed by 'I' helper for image
 * - Color depth: 24-bit for RGB 888, 16-bit for RGB 565
 * - Image width (uint16 little endian, 2 bytes)
 * - Image height (uint16 little endian, 2 bytes)
 * - Pixel data encoded as RGB 16/24 bit and suffixed by a single byte CRC.
 *
 * Format: [ '!' ] [ 'I' ] [uint8_t color bit] [ uint16 width ] [ uint16 height ] [ r g b ] [ r g b ] [ r g b ] … [ CRC ]
 */

uint16_t imageWidth = 0;
uint16_t imageHeight = 0;
uint8_t  imageColorBit = 0;

uint32_t totalPixel = 0; // received pixel

// pixel line buffer, should be large enough to hold an image width
uint16_t pixel_buf[512];

// Statistics for speed testing
uint32_t rxStartTime = 0;
uint32_t rxLastTime = 0;

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(115200);

  display.begin();
  display.clearBuffer();

#if DISPLAY_IN_USE == EINK_GIZMO
  display.setRotation(0);
#else
  // todo more eink displays
#endif

  // Config the peripheral connection with maximum bandwidth
  // more SRAM required by SoftDevice
  // Note: All config***() function must be called before begin()
  Bluefruit.configPrphBandwidth(BANDWIDTH_MAX);

  Bluefruit.begin();
  Bluefruit.setTxPower(4);    // Check bluefruit.h for supported values

  Bluefruit.Periph.setConnectCallback(connect_callback);
  Bluefruit.Periph.setDisconnectCallback(disconnect_callback);
  Bluefruit.Periph.setConnInterval(6, 12); // 7.5 - 15 ms

  // Configure and Start BLE Uart Service
  bleuart.begin();

  // Due to huge amount of image data
  // NRF52832 doesn't have enough SRAM to queue up received packets using deferred callbacks.
  // Therefore it must process data as soon as it comes, this can be done by
  // changing the default "deferred" option to false to invoke callback immediately.
  // However, the transfer speed will be affected since immediate callback will block BLE task
  // to process data especially when tft.drawRGBBitmap() is calling.
#ifdef NRF52840_XXAA
  // 2nd argument is true to deferred callbacks i.e queue it up in separated callback Task
  bleuart.setRxCallback(bleuart_rx_callback, true);
#else
  // 2nd argument is false to invoke callbacks immediately (thus blocking other ble events)
  bleuart.setRxCallback(bleuart_rx_callback, false);
#endif
  bleuart.setRxOverflowCallback(bleuart_overflow_callback);

  // Set up and start advertising
  startAdv();
  Serial.println("Advertising ... ");
}
void startAdv(void)
{
  // Advertising packet
  Bluefruit.Advertising.addFlags(BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_GENERAL_DISC_MODE);
  Bluefruit.Advertising.addTxPower();
  Bluefruit.Advertising.addAppearance(BLE_APPEARANCE_GENERIC_CLOCK);

  // Include bleuart 128-bit uuid
  Bluefruit.Advertising.addService(bleuart);

  // There is no room for Name in Advertising packet
  // Use Scan response for Name
  Bluefruit.ScanResponse.addName();
  
  /* Start Advertising
   * - Enable auto advertising if disconnected
   * - Interval:  fast mode = 20 ms, slow mode = 152.5 ms
   * - Timeout for fast mode is 30 seconds
   * - Start(timeout) with timeout = 0 will advertise forever (until connected)
   * 
   * For recommended advertising interval
   * https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1931/_index.html   
   */
  Bluefruit.Advertising.restartOnDisconnect(true);
  Bluefruit.Advertising.setInterval(32, 244);    // in unit of 0.625 ms
  Bluefruit.Advertising.setFastTimeout(30);      // number of seconds in fast mode
  Bluefruit.Advertising.start(0);                // 0 = Don't stop advertising after n seconds
}

void loop()
{
  // nothing to do
}

// Invoked when receiving data from bleuart
// Pull data from bleuart fifo & draw image as soon as possible,
// Otherwise bleuart fifo can be overflowed
void bleuart_rx_callback(uint16_t conn_hdl)
{
  (void) conn_hdl;

  rxLastTime = millis();

  // Received new Image
  if ( (imageWidth == 0) && (imageHeight == 0) )
  {
    // take note of time of first packet
    rxStartTime = millis();

    // Skip all data until '!I' is found
    while( bleuart.available() && bleuart.read() != '!' )  { }
    if (bleuart.read() != 'I') return;

    if ( !bleuart.available() ) return;
    imageColorBit = bleuart.read8();
    imageWidth  = bleuart.read16();
    imageHeight = bleuart.read16();
    totalPixel = 0;
    display.clearBuffer();
    display.fillScreen(EPD_WHITE);
    display.setCursor(0, 0);
    // Print out the current connection info
    BLEConnection* conn = Bluefruit.Connection(conn_hdl);
    Serial.printf("Connection Info: PHY = %d Mbps, Conn Interval = %.2f ms, Data Length = %d, MTU = %d\n",
                  conn->getPHY(), conn->getConnectionInterval()*1.25f, conn->getDataLength(), conn->getMtu());
    Serial.printf("Receving an %dx%d Image with %d bit color\n", imageWidth, imageHeight, imageColorBit);
  }

  // Extract pixel data to buffer and draw image line by line
  while ( bleuart.available() >= 3 )
  {
    uint8_t red, green, blue;

    if ( imageColorBit == 24 )
    {
      // Application send 24-bit color
      red = bleuart.read();
      green = bleuart.read();
      blue = bleuart.read();
    }
    else if ( imageColorBit == 16 )
    {
      // Application send 16-bit 565 color
      uint16_t c565 = bleuart.read16();

      red = (c565 & 0xf800) >> 8;
      green = (c565 & 0x07e0) >> 3;
      blue = (c565 & 0x001f) << 3;
    }else
    {
      Serial.println("Error: incorrect color bits ");
      while(1) yield();
    }

    // Convert RGB into Eink Color
    uint8_t c = 0;
    if ((red < 0x80) && (green < 0x80) && (blue < 0x80)) {
      c = EPD_BLACK; // try to infer black
    } else if ((red >= 0x80) && (green >= 0x80) && (blue >= 0x80)) {
      c = EPD_WHITE;
    } else if (red >= 0x80) {
      c = EPD_RED; // try to infer red color
    }

    // store to pixel buffer
    pixel_buf[totalPixel % imageWidth] = c;

    totalPixel++;

    // have enough to draw an image line
    if ( (totalPixel % imageWidth) == 0 )
    {
      display.drawRGBBitmap(0, totalPixel/imageWidth, pixel_buf, imageWidth, 1);
    }
  }

  // all pixel data is received
  if ( totalPixel == imageWidth*imageHeight )
  {
    uint8_t crc = bleuart.read();
    (void) crc;
    // do checksum later

    // print speed summary
    print_summary(totalPixel*(imageColorBit/8) + 8, rxLastTime-rxStartTime);

    // Display on Eink, will probably take dozens of seconds
    Serial.println("Displaying image (~20 seconds) .....");
    display.display();

    // reset and waiting for new image
    imageColorBit = 0;
    imageWidth = imageHeight = 0;
    totalPixel = 0;

    Serial.println("Ready to receive new image");
  }
}

void connect_callback(uint16_t conn_handle)
{
  Serial.println("Connected");
  Serial.println("Ready to receive new image");
}

void print_summary(uint32_t count, uint32_t ms)
{
  float sec = ms / 1000.0F;

  Serial.printf("Received %d bytes in %.2f seconds\n", count, sec);
  Serial.printf("Speed: %.2f KB/s\n\n", (count / 1024.0F) / sec);
}

void bleuart_overflow_callback(uint16_t conn_hdl, uint16_t leftover)
{
  (void) conn_hdl;
  (void) leftover;
  
  Serial.println("BLEUART rx buffer OVERFLOWED!");
  Serial.println("Please increase buffer size for bleuart");
}

/**
 * invoked when a connection is dropped
 * @param conn_handle connection where this event happens
 * @param reason is a BLE_HCI_STATUS_CODE which can be found in ble_hci.h
 */
void disconnect_callback(uint16_t conn_handle, uint8_t reason)
{
  (void) conn_handle;
  (void) reason;

  imageColorBit = 0;
  imageWidth = imageHeight = 0;
  totalPixel = 0;

  bleuart.flush();
}

Can someone help me with the above code to send bitmap files from one Bluefruit nRF52832 module? How's the app converting and sending the image files, so I'd copy the same for me?

I tried to follow the instructions to convert the bitmap file. I added the letters '!I' before the bitmap file, but it still isn't received at the module. Also, it mentioned it needs a 16-bit bitmap file, so I need to send both 8-bit converted files together.

[Simonr]

Hi

There is a great blog post on maximizing throughput with BLE on NovelBits here. Please note that the maximum payload with data length extensions enabled is up to 255 bytes and not bits. What SDK are you planning on using, or are you most familiar with? We have both a "bare metal" nRF5 SDK as well as the nRF Connect SDK based on the Zephyr RTOS. Both SDKs have sample projects on how to transmit and receive data with the data length extensions enabled.

Best regards,

Simon