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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Fragmentation of notifications - should I combine them?</title><link>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/9422/fragmentation-of-notifications---should-i-combine-them</link><description>Suppose I have a lot of very small characteristics (1 or 2 bytes) to send lots of notifications on. They are all updated simultaneously, though the central doesn&amp;#39;t care about that. 
 When I notify them, does each notification go into a separate BLE packet</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 13</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:36:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/9422/fragmentation-of-notifications---should-i-combine-them" /><item><title>RE: Fragmentation of notifications - should I combine them?</title><link>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/34782?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:36:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:e344fae1-4127-4ac2-aee7-e0dfdbbb4743</guid><dc:creator>Petter Myhre</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;With our SoftDevices each ATT packet (notification) will go into separate L2CAP packets and will be sent separately over the air.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If the characteristic values are always notified at the same time it would be better to combine them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Fragmentation of notifications - should I combine them?</title><link>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/34781?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:31:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:020749a2-0e4d-4625-af9a-f2c2cbbfcabe</guid><dc:creator>Torsten Robitzki</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;They are packet into different L2CAP packets and I think in theory there is nothing that prevents an BLE implementation from packing more than one L2CAP SDU into one link layer PDU.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But I doubt that there are existing implementations that do this. You could just try it out. Beside your idea of using one &amp;quot;combined&amp;quot; characteristic, you could use one characteristic (an integer for example) that gets changed when ever any of the othere characteristics get changed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>