RE: Cycling different advertising packets

Marius Heil — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:31:02 GMT

Sure, I want to offer the user the ability to broadcast different beacon data. Right now, that would be Eddystone, a custom message and iBeacon for Example. The order in which they are transmitted does not matter, nor does the timing, but it would be nice to have them transmitted at equal rates and without losing energy because of switching the data. I know, that I could use radio notifications, but without any data to go with, I can only guess what's going on and I wanted to have something a little more predictable and clean.

RE: Cycling different advertising packets

Ulrich Myhre — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:36:50 GMT

Could you tell a bit more about your use-case? You want to broadcast multiple advertising data packets in a specific sequence - while handling connections and scanning at the same time? Is it timing-critical?

Advertisements are not reliable enough on air to guarantee this, even without the other operations going. They are likely to collide, or advertise on the "wrong" channel.

There is currently no direct way to detect advertisements being sent. Indirectly, you can see it with radio notifications (given no other traffic) or with scan request reporting enabled.

I found your comment from earlier being tracked internally, but I am not sure if it is planned for any upcoming releases.