Todd Lesher

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6 years, 7 months ago.

Should the iBeacon data Bytes add up to 31?

Or perhaps show that the 31st Byte is unused?

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Last updated: 24 Mar 2015
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https://docs.mbed.com/docs/ble-intros/en/latest/Introduction/BLEInDepth/#advertising-and-connected-mode

0 - 31 BYTES it reads.

posted by Mark Edgar 02 Sep 2017

1 Answer

Jan Jongboom
6 years, 7 months ago.

BLE advertisement frame is 31 bytes, iBeacon uses 30 bytes, leaving the last byte unused.