advertising a counter to the nRF Beacon App

[Andreas]

Hello, I'm new in programming beacons and ble sofware. I'm using the nRF51822 Beacon with S110 and the USB Dongle. I updated the beacon with the example ble_app_beacon via MCP and I can find the beacon with the nRF Beacon App. So far so fine. Now I want to change the displayed MAJOR and MINOR values using a counter in the main-loop. In the developerZone i found, that it is best to use "ble_advdata_set()". But for me it doesn't work. I comented out the part where the beacon adress is written into the flash (in the function beacon_params_default_set()). Now the displayed values are taken from the defines APP_DEFAULT_MAJOR_VALUE and APP_DEFAULT_MINOR_VALUE. But I cannot change them in main-loop. Can anybody help me?

[Sigurd]

I would recommend using a app timer for this. Put it in repeated mode and let it call a interrupt handler every X second. In the handler, you can change the major and minor values.

[Andreas]

ok, now it works. something went wrong with copying the values into the advertising-structure. @Sirgurd: I'll will try you're idea with the timer and the interrupt handler later on.