sensor tile & BlueNRG

Jan Burkhardt · ‎2017-09-01

Posted on September 01, 2017 at 11:39

Hey Folks,

i'm currently starting with developing applications for the SensorTile. I try to achieve so advertise a custom BLE Packet (like an AltBeacon Protocol). I found the hci_le.c header in de Middleware. It seams that i can use the 'hci_set_set_advertising_parameters' and 'hci_le_set_advertising_data' functions for modifieng the ADV Packet.

But there is no documentation what the function parameters mean!

Is there any documentation ore experience available??

Thanks

Jan B.

#sensortile #bluenrg

Antonio Vilei · ‎2017-09-04

Posted on September 04, 2017 at 11:49

Dear Jan,

as a starting point, you could take a look at the Eddystone Beacon example project included in the

http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/embedded-software/mcus-embedded-software/stm32-embedded-software/stm32cube-expansion-software/x-cube-ble1.html

software package. For more information about it, please refer to the

http://www.st.com/content/ccc/resource/technical/document/application_note/group0/2b/c9/2e/82/a4/a4/46/8e/DM00350401/files/DM00350401.pdf/jcr:content/translations/en.DM00350401.pdf

Application Note, 'Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons with Eddystone'.

After you download the software, you can find the beacon project in the following directory:

STM32CubeExpansion_BLE1_V3.0.0\Projects\Multi\Applications\Beacon

NOTE: the X-CUBE_BLE1 package does not support the SensorTile board out of the box. X-CUBE-BLE1 is meant to be used with an STM32 Nucleo and an X-NUCLEO-IDB05A1 expansion board for BLE (based on the BlueNRG-MS chip). Anyway, if you already have some BLE example code running on the SensorTile, implementing the beacon on your board should be straightforward.

Hope that helps,

Antonio

Jan Burkhardt · ‎2017-09-13

Posted on September 13, 2017 at 14:40

Hey Antonio,

thanks for the fast reply.

Actually just the BLE_SampleApp ist running at the moment. I integrated the Eddystone functions into the existing code, but it doesn't work. I have no clue what i'm doing wrong!

Do you have some more informations, what i have to do, to run the Eddystone protocol on the Sensor Tile?

thanks a lot

Jan B.

Jan Burkhardt · ‎2017-09-14

Posted on September 14, 2017 at 15:27

Hey,

it works! Stupid mistake on my side. hm....

:(