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:
5:fff16d283dcf
Parent:
4:d602b1c3aef4
Child:
6:a7595838d240
--- 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.