RE: ANCS and nRF51822 : old notification + Apple Co Pro + 2 smartphones

Thiroy — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:05:07 GMT

Thank you for your answers. It will help to specify the features of our device.

Regards, Thiroy

RE: ANCS and nRF51822 : old notification + Apple Co Pro + 2 smartphones

Anders Strand — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:48:34 GMT

The information Maulik has provided is correct. About question 1: No, you do not need an apple coprocessor in order to use ANCS. About question 3: Keep in mind that you can set how many notification of each app the iphone keeps in the notification center. You can not access old notifications which have been removed from the notification center.

RE: ANCS and nRF51822 : old notification + Apple Co Pro + 2 smartphones

Maulik Patel — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:00:46 GMT

Hi Thiroy,

Here are your answers based on my knowledge with ANCS

I do not get your question clearly but if you are talking about adding company identifier in advertisement data then NO you do not need to add any company identifier in order to connect with ANCS.
No. Being peripheral as per BLE specs You cannot not connect to two master at a single time. But if you want to, then you can connect with both one after another.
In general yes, it is possible to have access to all the notification at any given time which are currently in iPhone's notification center.

Case A: On reconnection you need to enable notifications on notification source characteristic, on doing so iPhone will send you all notification which are currently in iPhone's notification center.

Case B: Yes, as mentioned above when you enable notification(if already enabled then first disable and then enable), it will force iPhone to send all currently pending notfication which are currently displaying in iPhone's notification center.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Maulik

Adding 4th Answer: Yes, Based on ANCS specifications for each notification you can request NotificationAttributeIDDate (On of the NotificationAttributeID of notification), this should provide you time information related to each notification individually.