This allows for clearing the duplicate filter cache when required and will also clear it
automatically when starting a scan.
This is useful when unexpectedly disconnected from a device and attempting to reconnect.
Previously the scan filter would not report advertisements from a device if it was multi-connectable
and advertising while connected. The result was long delays until the device would be scanned again.
This resolves it by clearing the filter cache on each scan start/clearResults call
and adding a method to NimBLEScan for manually clearing the cache on demand.
* Adds setMaxResults to NimBLEScan to limit the number of advertised devices stored.
If set to 0 no devices will be stored in memory and only the callback will be invoked.
If set to 0xFF (default) stored devices will be unlimited. Any other value will be the limit.
* Uses the controller to filter duplicate devices from the scan results when wantDuplicates == false.
* Stores complete advertisement payload and only performs parsing on demand. The advertised data is no longer parsed automatically as it is discovered, instead it will be parsed to find only the data requested by the user application when it makes a call to do so. This saves processing time and approximately 2.4k in flash size, with the new methods listed below included.
Add more advertised device field methods:
* Adds haveAdvInterval/getAdvInterval - checks if the interval is advertised / gets the advertisement interval value.
* Adds haveConnParams/getMinInterval/getMaxInterval - checks if the parameters are advertised / get min value / get max value.
* Adds haveURI/getURI - checks if a URI is advertised / gets the URI data.
* Adds haveTargetAddress/getTargetAddressCount/getTargetAddress(index) - checks if a target address is present / gets a count of the addresses targeted / gets the address of the target at index.
Previously when the host reset while scanning (if active prior) it would be restarted automatically.
This caused errors for some applications and has been removed since the event invokes the scan
ended callback for the app to take action. Instead scanning will now only be restarted if the duration
was indefinite and a callback was set for the advertisment events, this use case is less likely to have
a scan ended callback.
Advertising (if active prior) would be started without regard to it's previous state.
This has been corrected to only start advertising again if it was advertising for an idefinite time.
The BLE_HS_EBUSY return code was causing the application to hang when starting scan as
occasionally the code would not change, resulting in an infinite loop.
This patch handles the return code more appopriately and removes the loop.
Additionally a race condition would sometimes allow the code to execute past the conditional checks
and clear the advertised device vector while a scan was active and writing to it causing an exception.
This has been hopefully corrected by only clearing the vector if the return code from starting the scan is 0.
* Add clearAll parameter to deinit()
Adds the ability to clear all resources consumed during BLE operation when deinitializing and shutting down BLE.
Useful when BLE is used intermittently or in a task that initializes, performs operations then deinitializes.
By setting the clearAll parameter to true all created BLE objects will be deleted, freeing the memory for other tasks.
Warning: This will invalidate any pointers that may be referencing the deleted objects.
* Add bool deleteCallbacks parameter to NimBLEServer::setCallbacks, if true (default) will delete the callback class when server is destructed.
* Delete scan results when scan is destructed.
* Add support for getting multiple services data from advertisments.
* Adds new methods for getting advertised service data and UUIDS.
- getServiceData(index), gets the service data by index value.
- getServiceData(NimBLEUUID), gets the service data by UUID.
- getServiceDataCount(), gets the number of services with data advertised.
* Templates added for getServiceData(index) and getServiceData(NimBLEUUID)
to be able to specify the data type returned by these methods
Example:
getServiceData<uint32_t>(NimBLEUUID("ABCD");
* Also added:
- getServiceUUID(index), gets the advertised service UUID by index value.
- getServiceUUIDCount(), gets the number of advertised services.
Also adds:
* NimBLEScan::setDuplicateFilter() to tell the controller to filter duplicates
before sending the result to the host.
* NimBLEScan::setLimitedOnly() to tell the controller only report scan results
from devices advertising in limited discovery mode, i.e. directed advertising.
* NimBLEScan::setFilterPolicy() to set the filter policy i.e whitelist only devices.
* Replace all semaphores with task notifications.
* use critical sections to prevent concurrent data access.
* Ensure scan stop has been called before connecting.
* Optimize and cleanup
* Add template casting to NimBLERemoteDescriptor::readValue()
* Removed storage of the descriptor value read as it did not serve any purpose.
* Add NimBLERemoteCharacteristic::getValue(time_t *timestamp = nullptr) to get the latest remote characteristic and (optionally) it's timestamp.
* Added a timestamp to NimBLEAdvertisedDevice for the moment a device was scanned
Add iterators for NimBLEScan: NimBLEadvertisedDevice, NimBLEClient: NimBLERemoteService, NimBLERemoteService: NimBLERemoteCharacteristic and NimBLERemoteCharacteristic: NimBLERemoteDescriptor
This is handy e.g. for showing every address of the advertised devices from a scan. To do so, first get a new scan and next:
```
for(auto pAdvertisedDevice: pBLEScan->getResults()) {
Serial.printf("Address is %s\n", std::string(pAdvertisedDevice->getAddress()).c_str());
}
```
Of course any other property of the advertised device can be shown (or looked up, if that is your use case)
Also this is handy e.g. for showing every UUID in a peripheral. To do so, first connect to a peripheral and next:
```
for(auto pService: *pClient) {
Serial.printf("Service UUID is %s\n", std::string(pService->getUUID()).c_str());
for(auto pCharacteristic: *pService) {
Serial.printf("Characteristic UUID is %s\n", std::string(pCharacteristic->getUUID()).c_str());
for(auto pDescriptor: *pCharacteristic) {
Serial.printf("Descriptor UUID is %s\n", std::string(pDescriptor->getUUID()).c_str());
}
}
}
```
Again of course any other property can be shown, or looked up.
* Exchange map for vector, saving 1,076 bytes of program memory and 5,024 bytes of heap for a small device (LYWSD03MMC)
* Removing m_characteristicMapByHandle (using the handles form m_characteristicVector instead) saving in total (compared to the current master) 1,508 bytes of program memory and 6,500 bytes of heap for a small device (LYWSD03MMC)
* Change NimBLEScan container from std::map to std::vector
* Add function to get advertised device by address
* Update documentation
This allows NimBLE options in menuconfig to reduce code size based on
the roles selected (scan/advertising/central/peripheral).
Significant code space can be saved by removing unnecessary roles for the application.
