Multiactivity_beacon advertiser for nRF52 (Service and iBeacon together)

[fab]

I am trying to port the experimental_ble_app_multiactivity_beacon advertiser example to nRF52.

I have used the document 'Migrating an nRF51 BLE project to nRF52' (infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp

I have only changed the Memory Areas as follows:

• IROM1: 0x1C000/0x64000
• IRAM1: 0x20002080/0xDF80

Moreover, I have changed:

• APP_COMPANY_IDENTIFIER to 0x004C
• BEACON_UUID, BEACON_MAJOR, BEACON_MINOR as per my needs.

(I did exactly the same with ble_app_beacon which worked as expected).

All the services are properly advertised and I am able to connect to them, but unfortunately the iBeacon is not detected by my iOS device.

I have also tried the timeslot variation, but I am not able to compile because of this error:

cannot open source input file "ble_stack_handler_types.h": No such file or directory

Can anyone help me with this or point me to a working sample of a BLS service together with iBeacon?

Tks

[Hung Bui]

@fab: Have you tried to use the Master Control Panel /nRF Connect app to scan for the beacon ? The app is available on both iOS and Windows PC. If the device advertise as a beacon, could you take a screenshot of the advertising data ?

If you add a break point at the command err_code = sd_ble_gap_adv_start(&m_beacon.adv_params); in app_beacon_start(), what error code you get ?

[fab]

@Hung Bui

Apparently, something weird is happening. When I set a breakpoint at the line you suggested, the err_code is not set (value is ).

If I go head, step by step, apparently no error is reported.

I attached a couple of screenshot from nRF Connect.

Tsk IMG_2099.PNG IMG_2100.PNG

[Hung Bui]

@fab: You may need to set the optimization level to level 0 as shown in this guide.

The screenshot only show the scanning panel when the device is not connected. In the example the advertising as beacon only start after connected. My suggestion is to use the NRFToolbox to connect, then you can use nRF Connect to scan for the beacon (when connection is on going)

[fab]

@Hung Bui. Thank you for your support. Setting the optimization to 0 did the job. The err_code has value 0 after connection. I attached the nRF Connect after the connection. iBeacon is still not reveled by the iOS application which should be triggered by it.

FYI this is my ibecon configuration:

define APP_COMPANY_IDENTIFIER 0x004C define BEACON_UUID 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x09 define BEACON_ADV_INTERVAL 200
define BEACON_MAJOR 0x0000
define BEACON_MINOR 0x0001
define BEACON_RSSI 0xC3

IMG_2102.PNG Tks

[Hung Bui]

@Fab: It looks pretty strange, could you send me your project source so I can compile and test here ? Also let me know the SDK version.