SDK12 removal of BLE_GAP_ADDR_TYPE_RANDOM_PRIVATE_RESOLVABLE from ble_gap_addr_set

[Jim Dattolo]

Why was this removed? The SD 3.0 docs show only random static and public as options and I get bad address for the others which is consistent with the docs. We were using random private resolvable in SDK11 and seeing the MAC addr rotate as expected. Does public do the same thing? I noticed that the name of the function changed as well from sd_ble_gap_address_set to sd_ble_gap_addr_set.

[Petter Myhre]

Please check out the S132 v3 migration document:

/* S132 v2.0 API usage */

ble_gap_addr_t private_addr = {0};
private_addr.addr_type = BLE_GAP_ADDR_TYPE_RANDOM_PRIVATE_RESOLVABLE;
sd_ble_gap_addr_set(BLE_GAP_ADDR_CYCLE_MODE_AUTO, private_addr);

/* S132 v3.0 API usage */

ble_gap_privacy_params_t privacy_params = {0};
privacy_params.privacy_mode = BLE_GAP_PRIVACY_MODE_DEVICE_PRIVACY;
privacy_params.private_addr_type =
BLE_GAP_ADDR_TYPE_RANDOM_PRIVATE_RESOLVABLE;
sd_ble_gap_privacy_set(privacy_params);

[Jim Dattolo]

I asked in these forums about a migration doc for SDK12 which includes the S132 v3 SD and Nordic said that there was no doc and that I needed to just use the release notes and read the code. Can you point me to this migration doc? When I set the addr type do I set it to PUBLIC in the addr_type field or just leave that all alone and only do the privacy API?

[Petter Myhre]

There is no migration document for SDKs, but there is for the SoftDevices. You can find the document in \components\softdevice\s132\doc in the SDK folder structure.

You can also find it in the zip here.

[Petter Myhre]

Why would you set it to public? Anyways, should be enough to use the privacy API. Let me know if you get into trouble.