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How can I emulate the iBeacon scanner with a second BlueNRG-LP board?

JWill.8
Associate III

What I want to do is quite simple in theory :

1) Load the BLE Beacon application from the BlueNRG-LP Development Kit (DK) on the first BlueNRG-LP board and run

2) Verify with an Android BLE Scanner Phone app that the BLE Beacon app on the BlueNRG-LP is periodically updating (like RSSI values)

3) Start from some application in the DK (say the BLE_RC_LongRange project)

4) Modify this project source code to perform a passive scan on the 1M PHY (neutering connections as I am not interested in those for this experiment)

5) Override the hci_le_extended_advertising_report_event and hci_le_advertising_report_event callbacks recompile and place them in the project with breakpoints and run on the second BlueNRG-LP board

Result: Not hitting callback breakpoints on second board which I would expect because first board is constantly beaconing.

I left out a lot of details to keep the question as concise as I can.

My question is: Am I going about this the proper way and if not can you suggest two DK sample apps I can start from so I can slay this?

Thanks for any guidance..

JRW

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You are welcome. The "black hole" effect in the Community can be a bit unsettling. Sometimes, I just need somebody to commiserate with :) ....

I couldn't agree with you more :>