Maxim Ibragimov / Mbed 2 deprecated BLE_Evothings_NRF51822-BLE400

How to turn a WaveShare nRF51-BLE400 into a discoverable beacon using mbed

Dependencies:   mbed BLE_API nRF51822

Port for WaveShare BLE400 (chip nRF51 Aliexpress devboard)
Android Evothings good example for Nordic nRF51822-DK

As target for mbed-online used <Nordic nRF51822>
- (Large green board Nordic nRF51822-mKIT, actually deprecated on 01/03/2019)

Briefly: Handle via Evothings BLE Application 4 LEDs and 2 Buttons(via notify messages).

Figure 1: Evothings Android application screenshot

Evothings application screenshot

Android Evothings application sources

Android application APK

Happy coding!
maxxir 02/03/19

Diff: main.cpp

Revision:
4:d602b1c3aef4
Parent:
3:e9646631084f
Child:
5:fff16d283dcf
--- a/main.cpp	Tue Mar 10 20:06:05 2015 +0000
+++ b/main.cpp	Tue Mar 10 20:32:37 2015 +0000
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
   Make up your own encoding for these 26bytes, send it across
   and decode it using the evothings app.
  */
-const static uint8_t AdvData[] = {"ChangeThisData"};             // example of character data
-//const static uint8_t AdvData[] = {0x01,0x02,0x03,0x04,0x05};   // example of hex data
+//const static uint8_t AdvData[] = {"ChangeThisData"};             // example of character data
+const static uint8_t AdvData[] = {0x01,0x02,0x03,0x04,0x05};   // example of hex data
 
 // main program
 int main(void)
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
     // Sacrifice 3B of 31B to Advertising Flags
     ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::BREDR_NOT_SUPPORTED | GapAdvertisingData::LE_GENERAL_DISCOVERABLE );
-    ble.setAdvertisingType(GapAdvertisingParams::ADV_NON_CONNECTABLE_UNDIRECTED);
+    ble.setAdvertisingType(GapAdvertisingParams::ADV_CONNECTABLE_UNDIRECTED);
 
     // Sacrifice 2B of 31B to AdvType overhead, rest goes to AdvData array you define
     ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::MANUFACTURER_SPECIFIC_DATA, AdvData, sizeof(AdvData));