This is an mbed side application meant to demonstrate how to create a custom GATT service/characteristic with Evothings.

Dependencies:   BLE_API mbed nRF51822

Intro

This code is meant to be run on an mbed enabled BLE board and paired with the mbed-evothings-customGATT smartphone application.

Details

This code is a demonstration of how to create a custom service (UUID=0xA0000) with two characteristics, a read only characteristic (UUID=0xA001) and a write characteristic (UUID=0xA002). What is written to the write characteristic will be copied across to the read characteristic and broadcast out. If a single byte is written it will be used to toggle the on board LED, if more than 1 byte is written the data will be written out to the terminal. The default max size is 10bytes.

Viewing Data

You can use either the LightBlue app on iOS or the nRF Master Control Panel application on Android to view the advertising data. Alternatively you can use a custom Evothings App to view the data.

Evothings?

Evothings is a rapid prototyping environment that uses cordova to enable you to rapidly develop smartphone applications in Javascript. Please download the Evothings workbench to your computer and the Evothings client to your smartphone. Then grab the code from the github page, drag and drop the index.htm file into Evothings workbench and run it on the Evothings client.

Reference

Committer:
mbedAustin
Date:
Sat Feb 14 15:25:00 2015 +0000
Revision:
3:0fb60f81f693
Parent:
2:e84c13abc479
Child:
4:7ef90665b399
Full skeleton in place, not working

Who changed what in which revision?

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mbedAustin 0:cd5b6733aeb1 1 #include "mbed.h"
mbedAustin 0:cd5b6733aeb1 2 #include "BLEDevice.h"
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 3 #include "CustomService.h"
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 4
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 5
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 6 // BLE object
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 7 BLEDevice ble;
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 8
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 9 // LED object
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 10 DigitalOut led(LED1);
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 11
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 12 const static char DEVICE_NAME[] = "MyDeviceName"; // change this
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 13 static const uint16_t uuid16_list[] = {0xFF}; //Custom UUID, FF is reserved for development
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 14
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 15 // Set Up Characteristics
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 16 static uint8_t readValue[1] = {0x00};
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 17 GattCharacteristic readChar(0xAAAA /* read char UUID*/, readValue, sizeof(readValue), sizeof(readValue),
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 18 GattCharacteristic::BLE_GATT_CHAR_PROPERTIES_READ | GattCharacteristic::BLE_GATT_CHAR_PROPERTIES_NOTIFY);
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 19
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 20 static uint8_t writeValue[1] = {0x00};
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 21 GattCharacteristic writeChar(0xBBBB /*write char UUID*/, writeValue, sizeof(writeValue), sizeof(writeValue),
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 22 GattCharacteristic::BLE_GATT_CHAR_PROPERTIES_WRITE | GattCharacteristic::BLE_GATT_CHAR_PROPERTIES_NOTIFY);
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 23
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 24 GattCharacteristic *characteristics[] = {&readChar, &writeChar};
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 25
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 26 // Set up custom service
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 27 GattService customService(0x221D /*Service UUID*/, characteristics, sizeof(characteristics) / sizeof(GattCharacteristic *));
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 28
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 29
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 30 // Restart advertising when phone app disconnects
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 31 void disconnectionCallback(Gap::Handle_t handle, Gap::DisconnectionReason_t reason)
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 32 {
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 33 ble.startAdvertising(); // restart advertising
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 34 }
mbedAustin 0:cd5b6733aeb1 35
mbedAustin 3:0fb60f81f693 36 // This function is called whenever someone writes something to the writeCharacteristic
mbedAustin 3:0fb60f81f693 37 void writeCharCallback(//TODO, fill this in)
mbedAustin 3:0fb60f81f693 38 {
mbedAustin 3:0fb60f81f693 39 //TODO: when character is written here change the LED, update the read characteristic, and print out to console
mbedAustin 3:0fb60f81f693 40 }
mbedAustin 0:cd5b6733aeb1 41
mbedAustin 0:cd5b6733aeb1 42 int
mbedAustin 0:cd5b6733aeb1 43 main(void)
mbedAustin 0:cd5b6733aeb1 44 {
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 45 led = 0; // turn LED off
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 46 ble.init();
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 47 ble.onDisconnection(disconnectionCallback);
mbedAustin 3:0fb60f81f693 48 ble.onDataWritten(customService.writeChar,writeCharCallback); //TODO: this is not correct, figure out correct syntax
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 49
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 50 /* setup advertising */
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 51 ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::BREDR_NOT_SUPPORTED);
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 52 ble.setAdvertisingType(GapAdvertisingParams::ADV_CONNECTABLE_UNDIRECTED);
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 53 ble.setAdvertisingInterval(160); /* 100ms; in multiples of 0.625ms. */
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 54 ble.startAdvertising(); // start advertising
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 55
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 56 ble.addService(customService); // Add our custom service to device
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 57
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 58 while (true) {
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 59 ble.waitForEvent(); //Save power
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 60 }
mbedAustin 2:e84c13abc479 61
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 62
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 63 // TODO: impliment the rest of triggering for LED based on Write of characteristic.
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 64 // TODO: impliment a read characteristic that sends text back to app
mbedAustin 1:94152e7d8b5c 65 // take a look at http://developer.mbed.org/teams/Bluetooth-Low-Energy/code/BLE_GroveColourSensor/file/000c8f8c7f03/main.cpp for inspiration.
mbedAustin 0:cd5b6733aeb1 66 }