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ancs_c or alert_notification?

Hello forum, I've been trying to get SOME alert on my nRF51DK from a phone. I first tried the alert_notification example, but it appears that one has to write a custom Android app to propagate the Android notification over BLE, which I will do some day, but preferably not when I am trying to learn BLE.

I then tried ancs_c, and was able to connect from my iPhone to the "ANCS" on nRF51DK from Settings --> Bluetooth. I even got some UART messages! But I did NOT see any alerts when I sent email and whatnot. So I tried "forget this device" from iPhone. After that, I cannot connect to the FW on nRF51DK (when I press on "ANCS", the category just changes from "MY DEVICES" to "OTHER DEVICES".

It looks like I have 2 unattractive choices: write an Android app now, or debug Apple ANCS. Do others know of a faster road to understanding how to get a phone alert over BLE?

w/ regards, Henry

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