nRF Master Control panel not working with android marshmallow

[Daniel Abraham]

I am using nRF Master Control panel for testing my peripheral changes. It works fine until i upgrade my nexus 5 to android Marshmallow. Now the app cant even find BLE device during scan.

Seems like Marshmallow is strict, Need to get permission before accessing BLE layer. Please advise.

[Aleksander Nowakowski]

Hi,

In my opinion it's not a bug. Beacons can be used to determine user's location, so both the location permission and enabling location service should be required if an app wants to scan for BLE devices. I'd rather said that before it was a 'bug' or a hole in security. An app still may connect and use bonded devices without location permission nor the service which is also correct.

The next version of nRF MCP will show a message in case the permission is not granted or location service is disabled.

[Aleksander Nowakowski]

Hi, the app has been renamed to nRF Connect.