Demonstration code showing how to control an LED over Bluetooth Low Energy using the UARTService

Dependencies:   BLE_API mbed nRF51822

Fork of BLE_LoopbackUART by Bluetooth Low Energy

This programme demonstrates the use of the UARTService to send command strings over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to control devices attached to the nRF51822 board.

In this example you can use a BLE connection from smart phone to turn on and off LED2 on the board.

Sending the character string "led2 on" will turn the LED on and "led2 off" will turn it off.

The command that is received is also echoed back via BLE to the sending device.

You can use the nRF UART App on and Android or iOS smart phone with BLE to test this out https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/nRFready-Demo-APPS

I have also ported the source code for the Android app into Android studio which should be a good starting point for developing your own custom App https://github.com/bennthomsen/nRF_UART. If you want to start using this within Android Studio create for own fork in GitHub and then from within Android Studio VCS>Checkout from Version Control>GitHub

main.cpp

Committer:
djmannion
Date:
2015-01-02
Revision:
15:2a9916011a2a
Parent:
14:8ff3bfb6b19d

File content as of revision 15:2a9916011a2a:

/* mbed Microcontroller Library
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#include "mbed.h"
#include "BLEDevice.h"

#include "UARTService.h"

#define NEED_CONSOLE_OUTPUT 0 /* Set this if you need debug messages on the console;
                               * it will have an impact on code-size and power consumption. */

#if NEED_CONSOLE_OUTPUT
#define DEBUG(...) { printf(__VA_ARGS__); }
#else
#define DEBUG(...) /* nothing */
#endif /* #if NEED_CONSOLE_OUTPUT */

#define LED2OFF "led2 off"
#define LED2ON "led2 on"


//char rxPayload[CMD_SIZE];

BLEDevice  ble;                               // Create Bluetooth object
DigitalOut led1(LED1);                        // Set the pin attached to LED1 as an output
DigitalOut led2(LED2);                        // Set the pin attached to LED2 as an output

UARTService *uartServicePtr;

/* BLE disconnected callback */
void disconnectionCallback(Gap::Handle_t handle, Gap::DisconnectionReason_t reason)
{
    DEBUG("Disconnected!\n\r");
    DEBUG("Restarting the advertising process\n\r");
    ble.startAdvertising();
}
/* BLE UART data received callback */
void onDataWritten(const GattCharacteristicWriteCBParams *params)
{
    if ((uartServicePtr != NULL) && (params->charHandle == uartServicePtr->getTXCharacteristicHandle())) {     //If characters received over BLE
        uint16_t bytesRead = params->len;
        DEBUG("received %u bytes\n\r", bytesRead);
        DEBUG("Received string: '");
        DEBUG((const char *)params->data);             //Note the size of data expands to the largest string received. Need to use bytesRead to resize.
        DEBUG("'\n\r");
        if (!strncmp(LED2ON,(const char *)params->data,bytesRead))  led2 = 1;   // If the received and command string are equal turn led2 on. Note strcmp returns 0 if strings are equal
        if (!strncmp(LED2OFF,(const char *)params->data,bytesRead)) led2 = 0;   // If the received and command string are equal turn led2 off.
                                                                                        //Toggle LED2 when data received
        ble.updateCharacteristicValue(uartServicePtr->getRXCharacteristicHandle(), params->data, bytesRead);   // Echo received characters back over BLE
    }
}

/* Periodic Ticker callback */
void periodicCallback(void)
{
    led1 = !led1;                             // Toggle LED 1
}

int main(void)
{
    led1 = 1;
    led2 = 0;
    Ticker ticker;                            // Create period timer
    ticker.attach(periodicCallback, 1);       // Attach ticker callback function with a period of 1 second

    DEBUG("Initialising the nRF51822\n\r");
    ble.init();
    ble.onDisconnection(disconnectionCallback);                                            // Define callback function for BLE disconnection event
    ble.onDataWritten(onDataWritten);                                                      // Define callback function for BLE Data received event

    /* setup advertising */
    ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::BREDR_NOT_SUPPORTED| GapAdvertisingData::LE_GENERAL_DISCOVERABLE);             // Indicate that Legacy Bluetooth in not supported
    ble.setAdvertisingType(GapAdvertisingParams::ADV_CONNECTABLE_UNDIRECTED);
    ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::SHORTENED_LOCAL_NAME,
                                     (const uint8_t *)"BLE UART", sizeof("BLE UART") - 1);
    ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::COMPLETE_LIST_128BIT_SERVICE_IDS,
                                     (const uint8_t *)UARTServiceUUID_reversed, sizeof(UARTServiceUUID_reversed));

    ble.setAdvertisingInterval(Gap::MSEC_TO_ADVERTISEMENT_DURATION_UNITS(1000));          // Set advertising interval to 1 second
    ble.startAdvertising();                                                               // Start advertising

    UARTService uartService(ble);                                                         // Create BLE UART service
    uartServicePtr = &uartService;                                                        // Initalise pointer to point to UART Service

    while (true) {
        ble.waitForEvent();                                                               // Wait for BLE events
    }
}