So I have my nRF51822 updating the characteristic value and sending notifications once every time I receive a radio notification.
uint8_t readings[20] = { 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 };
void bleRadioNotificationHandler(bool radioState)
{
if(!isConnected || !radioState || !drSmartService.notificationsEnabled) return;
bleServiceUpdate(drSmartService, readings);
++readings[0];
}
Initially I had bleServiceUpdate in a while loop untill it encountered BLE_ERROR_NO_TX_BUFFERS
It worked just fine.. with nRF Master Control Panel on Android, the notifications were received correctly and in order. The interval was set to 7.5ms.
Then I tried using my Windows 8.1 application, that however completely refused to receive the notifications properly. Not only the API was reporting that it received 24 bytes (my characteristic is actually 20 bytes) but what it received was garbage, and it didn't change at all:
14 6050403 e0d0c0b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Then I tried changing the min and max connection intervals to 500ms, it didn't change anything. At that point I went ahead to verify the characteristic contents by requesting the data manually instead of subscribing to the notifications. All fine there. Now I put it in a loop to see how fast it was. And to my suprise, it was fast. Wayyy too fast. I set the connection interval to 500ms, remember? And I was able to request MANY packets extremly quickly. Rought measurement gave me a result of around 16ms per packet. Bumping the connection intervals up to 1s, same thing. 16ms. How is this possible?
This is my GAP init function
uint32_t bleGapInit()
{
uint32_t errorCode;
ble_gap_conn_params_t connectionParams = { NULL };
ble_gap_conn_sec_mode_t securityMode;
BLE_GAP_CONN_SEC_MODE_SET_OPEN(&securityMode);
errorHandle(sd_ble_gap_device_name_set(&securityMode, (uint8_t*)DEVICE_NAME, strlen(DEVICE_NAME)));
errorHandle(sd_ble_gap_appearance_set(BLE_APPEARANCE_GENERIC_RUNNING_WALKING_SENSOR));
connectionParams.min_conn_interval = MIN_CONN_INTERVAL;
connectionParams.max_conn_interval = MAX_CONN_INTERVAL;
connectionParams.slave_latency = SLAVE_LATENCY;
connectionParams.conn_sup_timeout = CONN_SUP_TIMEOUT;
return sd_ble_gap_ppcp_set(&connectionParams);
}
