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
main.cpp
- Committer:
- mbedAustin
- Date:
- 2015-04-02
- Revision:
- 13:827dd2b32bb8
- Parent:
- 12:06c984252bd1
- Child:
- 14:1c15d473b42f
File content as of revision 13:827dd2b32bb8:
// Headers necessary for mbed and BLE device mode #include "mbed.h" #include "BLEDevice.h" // BLE object BLEDevice ble; // Optional: Device Name, add for human read-ability //const static char DEVICE_NAME[] = "ChangeMe!!"; // Optional: device name // You have up to 26 bytes of advertising data to use. const static uint8_t AdvData[] = {0x01,0x02,0x03,0x04,0x05}; // example of hex data //const static uint8_t AdvData[] = {"ChangeThisData"}; // example of character data // Optional: Restart advertising when phone app disconnects void disconnectionCallback(Gap::Handle_t handle, Gap::DisconnectionReason_t reason) { ble.startAdvertising(); } // main program int main(void) { // Initialize BLE baselayer, always do this first! ble.init(); // Optional: add callback for disconnection // ble.onDisconnection(disconnectionCallback); // Sacrifice 3B of 31B to Advertising Flags ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::BREDR_NOT_SUPPORTED | GapAdvertisingData::LE_GENERAL_DISCOVERABLE ); 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)); // Optional: 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(100); // 100ms, set as percentage of a second ble.startAdvertising(); // Infinite loop waiting for BLE events for (;;) { ble.waitForEvent(); // this saves battery while waiting for callback events } }