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
Android Evothings application sources
Happy coding!
maxxir 02/03/19
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--- a/main.cpp Tue Mar 10 20:32:37 2015 +0000 +++ b/main.cpp Tue Mar 10 20:58:12 2015 +0000 @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ // BLE object BLEDevice ble; +//const static char DEVICE_NAME[] = "ChangeMe!!"; // change this + /** You have up to 26 bytes of advertising data to use. Make up your own encoding for these 26bytes, send it across @@ -26,6 +28,9 @@ // Sacrifice 2B of 31B to AdvType overhead, rest goes to AdvData array you define ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::MANUFACTURER_SPECIFIC_DATA, AdvData, sizeof(AdvData)); + + // Add name to device + //ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::COMPLETE_LOCAL_NAME, (uint8_t *)DEVICE_NAME, sizeof(DEVICE_NAME)); // Set advertising interval. Longer interval = longer battery life ble.setAdvertisingInterval(160); // 100ms; in multiples of 0.625ms.