Trying to feed my own variable to be sent via bleuart (BLE UART) instead of using the data received in the HW serial buffer. If I rewrite the code from: bleuart.write( buf, count ); to => bleuart.write(“12345678”); it works. But when I try to replace the “12345678” string with a variable int (ex.) unsigned long test = 12345678; or with byte test = 12345678; it does not work. Then I tried to convert it to String and String() and same problems.
This is part of the “Blueart” example code from Adafruit in Arduino for the nRF52 BLE boards in Peripherals. It works fine. It reads the hardware Serial port and sends the data via BLE (ble uart) to the mobile phone. The mobile phone sends back data via BLE (ble uart) and the BLE sends the received data to the HW serial port.
This is part of the working original code:
//part of the working code
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(115200);
// Configure and Start BLE Uart Service
bleuart.begin();
}
void loop()
{
// Forward data from HW Serial to BLEUART
while (Serial.available())
{
// Delay to wait for enough input, since we have a limited transmission buffer
delay(2);
uint8_t buf[64];
int count = Serial.readBytes(buf, sizeof(buf));
bleuart.write( buf, count );
}
// Forward from BLEUART to HW Serial
while ( bleuart.available() )
{
uint8_t ch;
ch = (uint8_t) bleuart.read();
Serial.write(ch);
}
}
This is the modified code where I feed my own variable to the blueart instead of reading it from the serial:
//part of the what I tried
byte test = 12345678;
// tried also:
// String test = String"12345678";
//String (test) = "12345678";
//String (test) = 12345678;
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(115200);
// Configure and Start BLE Uart Service
bleuart.begin();
}
void loop()
{
// Forward data from HW Serial to BLEUART
while (Serial.available())
{
// Delay to wait for enough input, since we have a limited transmission buffer
delay(2);
uint8_t buf[64];
int count = test.getBytes(buf, sizeof(buf));
bleuart.write( buf, count );
}
// Forward from BLEUART to HW Serial
while ( bleuart.available() )
{
uint8_t ch;
ch = (uint8_t) bleuart.read();
Serial.write(ch);
}
}
Here is the entire code:
#include <bluefruit.h>
#include <Adafruit_LittleFS.h>
#include <InternalFileSystem.h>
// BLE Service
BLEDfu bledfu; // OTA DFU service
BLEDis bledis; // device information
BLEUart bleuart; // uart over ble
BLEBas blebas; // battery
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(115200);
#if CFG_DEBUG
// Blocking wait for connection when debug mode is enabled via IDE
while ( !Serial ) yield();
#endif
Serial.println("Bluefruit52 BLEUART Example");
Serial.println("---------------------------\n");
// Setup the BLE LED to be enabled on CONNECT
// Note: This is actually the default behaviour, but provided
// here in case you want to control this LED manually via PIN 19
Bluefruit.autoConnLed(true);
// Config the peripheral connection with maximum bandwidth
// more SRAM required by SoftDevice
// Note: All config***() function must be called before begin()
Bluefruit.configPrphBandwidth(BANDWIDTH_MAX);
Bluefruit.begin();
Bluefruit.setTxPower(4); // Check bluefruit.h for supported values
Bluefruit.setName("Bluefruit52");
//Bluefruit.setName(getMcuUniqueID()); // useful testing with multiple central connections
Bluefruit.Periph.setConnectCallback(connect_callback);
Bluefruit.Periph.setDisconnectCallback(disconnect_callback);
// To be consistent OTA DFU should be added first if it exists
bledfu.begin();
// Configure and Start Device Information Service
bledis.setManufacturer("Adafruit Industries");
bledis.setModel("Bluefruit Feather52");
bledis.begin();
// Configure and Start BLE Uart Service
bleuart.begin();
// Start BLE Battery Service
blebas.begin();
blebas.write(100);
// Set up and start advertising
startAdv();
Serial.println("Please use Adafruit's Bluefruit LE app to connect in UART mode");
Serial.println("Once connected, enter character(s) that you wish to send");
}
void startAdv(void)
{
// Advertising packet
Bluefruit.Advertising.addFlags(BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_GENERAL_DISC_MODE);
Bluefruit.Advertising.addTxPower();
// Include bleuart 128-bit uuid
Bluefruit.Advertising.addService(bleuart);
// Secondary Scan Response packet (optional)
// Since there is no room for 'Name' in Advertising packet
Bluefruit.ScanResponse.addName();
/* Start Advertising
* - Enable auto advertising if disconnected
* - Interval: fast mode = 20 ms, slow mode = 152.5 ms
* - Timeout for fast mode is 30 seconds
* - Start(timeout) with timeout = 0 will advertise forever (until connected)
*
* For recommended advertising interval
* https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1931/_index.html
*/
Bluefruit.Advertising.restartOnDisconnect(true);
Bluefruit.Advertising.setInterval(32, 244); // in unit of 0.625 ms
Bluefruit.Advertising.setFastTimeout(30); // number of seconds in fast mode
Bluefruit.Advertising.start(0); // 0 = Don't stop advertising after n seconds
}
void loop()
{
// Forward data from HW Serial to BLEUART
while (Serial.available())
{
// Delay to wait for enough input, since we have a limited transmission buffer
delay(2);
uint8_t buf[64];
int count = Serial.readBytes(buf, sizeof(buf));
bleuart.write( buf, count );
}
// Forward from BLEUART to HW Serial
while ( bleuart.available() )
{
uint8_t ch;
ch = (uint8_t) bleuart.read();
Serial.write(ch);
}
}
// callback invoked when central connects
void connect_callback(uint16_t conn_handle)
{
// Get the reference to current connection
BLEConnection* connection = Bluefruit.Connection(conn_handle);
char central_name[32] = { 0 };
connection->getPeerName(central_name, sizeof(central_name));
Serial.print("Connected to ");
Serial.println(central_name);
}
/**
* Callback invoked when a connection is dropped
* @param conn_handle connection where this event happens
* @param reason is a BLE_HCI_STATUS_CODE which can be found in ble_hci.h
*/
void disconnect_callback(uint16_t conn_handle, uint8_t reason)
{
(void) conn_handle;
(void) reason;
Serial.println();
Serial.print("Disconnected, reason = 0x"); Serial.println(reason, HEX);
}
