• How to change temperature enable setting with Lightblue app

    Hello, I bought a nordic/wellcore ibeacon (nrf51822) to experiment. I want to enable all the features and would like to know what value to assign to the temparature enable service. Right now the setting is 0x00 and it looks like this. IMG_2739…
  • How BLE_GAP_EVT_SCAN_REQ_REPORT event handling affect battery life?

    Hi, I need to support two advertising protocols simultaneously Beacon and iBeacon. This is because iOS.CoreBluetooth has a lot of limitations (there is no way to identify iBeacon device). I am changing advertising data on Scan request callback: …
  • setBeaconLayout on Android-Beacon Library

    Has anyone successfully used the Android-Beacon Library to detect the nRF51822 Beacon on and Android application? I tried several different layouts but I just can't detect it. public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements BeaconConsumer…
  • Corelocation Ibeacon Detection Range

    Hi guys I have been working with a nordic ble device (NRF51822) configured as a Beacon. I am implementing an IOS app, using Apple framework " CoreLocation". My goal is to detect beacons on background mode. Until now, I am able to detect beacons only…
  • Is the advertising module removed from docs?

    I am programming a beacon, first I had some problems using sd_ble_gap_adv_start() so I changed to ble_advertising_start() . Now I have a problem when compiling: _build/nrf52832_xxaa_main.c.o: In function `advertising_start': /Users/.../pca10040…
  • Nordic's booth at MWC 2017 in Barcelona

    Dear Nordic team, I've seen some short video from your booth at MWC 2017 last week. Could you post some photos or at least hint about the product examples you had there? E.g. "beacon wall" looked interesting and I guess more people on this forum would…
  • Maximise ibeacons detection during connection

    Hello, I have an nRF52 connected (as central and device) and i with to detect ibeacons arround. It's blind during connection but how can i improve my hit rate ? How can i fix scan on just one of the 3 channels ? Thank you
  • Change the advertising data of Beacon using raspberry pi.

    Hello, I'm trying to do something like ibeacon where data is pushed to any device listening, but I want to update the advertising data from raspberry pi 3 since it supports BLE. Is there a script that I can use to do this? I also found out that I…
  • recommended ibeacon platform

    ibeacon noob here, I see several postings about implementing with different chips. Is there a preferred solution for an ibeacon for new designs? Thanks!
  • Frequent scanning of multiple BLE beacons

    I read this thread: nRF51 beacon high frequency scanning and advertising and have similar problem here. Some repost from my electronics.stackexchange.com question I have 3 Atmel MCU based BLE scanners, each uses TI CC2540 based BLE HM-11 module…
  • 2 beacon packets same chip

    Hello, my question is pretty clear i guess. Is it possible to schedule advertising of 2 different packets on the same chip ? The way i see it, it should be possible to initialise 2 ble_gap_adv_params_t sturctures, and then in main i can start advertising…
  • nRF Master Control Panel for Android crashes when displaying details of fast advertising peripheral

    Dear Nordic team, I've seen very much reproducible crashes of your Android nRF Master Control Panel app when trying to see details (button "MORE") of particular Peripheral device. When I use aggressive advertising intervals (down to 20ms for connectable…
  • nRF51822 change device name and ibeacon

    Problem I got some problem in change device name. I found that the function of ble.gap.setDeviceName(deviceName) is useless. So I've searching for another function. And I found at this website . And it works. But the point is when I try…
  • Parsing nordic beacons with Android

    Hi, I created an Android project that scans nordic beacons and parses the data in it (such as the tx level, major. minor, UUID etc). I'm doing some low level parsing to extract this information. I was wondering if there is a cleaner way of doing this…
  • iBeacon usage as pairing less UART extender

    Hello everyone, I got a task which I try to implement using a NRF51822 iBeacon board. The Task: Advertise a Device and provide a mechanism to connect without traditional bluetooth pairing Provide a UART Style output on a Android Device…
  • Just need the basic chip & board

    I'm interested in using the chip and a very simple board. No buttons, no humidity or motion sensors, just the beacon (like a heartbeat). I'm trying to keep the price down, so can anyone point me to a board that uses the nRF51822 but without the frills…
  • What is maximum limit of payload on nRF518222 ?

    Hey I am working on nordic nRF51822, I have a doubt. Basically I want to use it as an iBeacon and along the iBeacon payload I also want to send some services. Is that fundamentally wrong or if not then what is the limit of complete adv. payload ? After…
  • Can we send any other data in iBeacon apart from its standard packet (uuid,major,minor,tx)

    Hey , I am working on nordic nRF51822 chip and using it as an iBeacon. I want to send some custom data apart from UUID,major,minor in the packet. How can I send it ? As in where should it be included because I could not find any provision to send any…
  • iBeacon not working/ being only detected as a bluetooth device

    Hey i was using the code from developer.mbed.org/.../main.cpp I am using this chip ( http://i.imgur.com/q8EM4uq.jpg ), it is nordic nRF51822 but i exactly do not know its peripheral config but its not mKit. I am using stlink v-2 to flash the chip using…
  • Automatic sensing and adding beacons with the nRF Beacons app.

    The nRF Beacons iPhone or Android app requires adding a new beacon devices in order to notified events. Is it a must for beacons? Or is it just a one step for examples. In either way, is it possible to make the App to be notified whenever beacons are…
  • Make the nRF51822 send multiple packets.

    Is it possible to make the nRF51822 beacon send multiple packets to the devices it connects to? The example code in the beacon kit sends one UUID, but I need to send information buried in multiple UUIDs or payloads.
  • Modifying the nRF51822 firmware for Apple's iBeacon

    I'm trying to update the 51822 beacon example to work with iOS8 (iBeacon). So far, I have registered to get iBeacon license from Apple, and setup the tools for compilation. ( devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../) I also could build an Beacon example to…
  • different advertisemet packets for ibeacon and normal connection

    Hi, I want to implement BLE based access control application. I have developed nRF51822 based Peripheral device & iOS application based central device to pair with the peripheral. as you know ibeacon provides special feature that based on beacon…
  • nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon Kit "Beacon not found" in Beacons mode with iOS 8.1

    I could scan/detect Beacons, and I could update the configuration without any problem with the nRF Beacons app. The issue is that the configured Beacons are not detected in Beacons mode. The log message in Xcode is as follows: 2014-11-20 20:30:19…
  • Use the nRF51822 as an iBeacon transmitter for iOS

    I'm new in nordic. I want to use nRF51822 as an iBeacon for iOS. This is possible? There is an example, documentation for this ? I have nRF51822 BLUTOOTH SMART BEACON KIT Thanks
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