How can I change the peripheral type? Don't need "Keyboard"

[RC]

Hey guys, I work with a partner who makes the hardware for me and uses the nordic chips. I want my device to pair over the android and iOS system settings.

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This works fine, but my hardware seller has set the peripheral to Keyboard which results in problems on android devices. (My device has only some simple on off features etc. no keyboard input or something complex) He tells me it's not possible to change that from Keyboard to something else but this cant be true right?

Is it possible to change that to something like "peripheral device" or "unknown" so the android system wont try to budge in?! Because it does some crazy things with my android keyboard then.

Thanks in Advance RC

[Sigurd]

Hi,

The appearance value is typically set in the gap_params_init() function, using the SoftDevice function sd_ble_gap_appearance_set(). In order for the peripheral to appear as a keyboard, the function is called with the argument BLE_APPEARANCE_HID_KEYBOARD. Here is the list of all appearance values. You can try to set the value to BLE_APPEARANCE_UNKNOWN, and see if that solves your android issues. In the gap_params_init() function:

err_code = sd_ble_gap_appearance_set(BLE_APPEARANCE_UNKNOWN);
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

[RC]

Thanks for your quick reply! I will send this to my partner and see if this will fix the problem! :)

[Wojtek]

Of course it can be changed, quite easily. I bet it is done by something like:

sd_ble_gap_appearance_set(BLE_APPEARANCE_HID_KEYBOARD);

I would just change it to:

sd_ble_gap_appearance_set(BLE_APPEARANCE_UNKNOWN);

edit. Did not notice that Sigurd already answered :) so, just like he said.

[RC]

But still thanks for your reply! I will post here when my partner changed the settings! :)