Does the SoftDevice S110 support 'Direct Advertising'?

[sd]

I'd like to use 'Direct Advertising' to get the attention of a Central (a specific one or any in range) when an event happens on the peripheral. Is this mode supported by the device / S110? If so, is there information anywhere on how to use it properly?

[Pål Håland]

It is possible to use Directed Advertising with the S110

you would have to do it like this

ble_gap_adv_params_t adv_params;
adv_params.type = BLE_GAP_ADV_TYPE_ADV_DIRECT_IND;
adv_params.p_peer_addr = &m_peer_addr; // from earlier connection
adv_params.fp = BLE_GAP_ADV_FP_ANY;
adv_params.p_whitelist = NULL;
adv_params.interval = 0;
adv_params.timeout = 0;

errcode = sd_ble_gap_adv_start(&adv_params);

[Pål Håland]

forgot to mention that the information can be found in the API reference

[Ole Morten]

If you want to look at an application example, some of the SDK applications also uses directed advertising, for example ble_app_hids_keyboard.

[julian]

should we using Directed Advertising after bonding if only one pair is allow bonding?