ESP32 Arduino BLE cant read Characteristic
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:13 pm
Hello All,
i'm a little clueless. I use a ESP32 with the Arduino IDE and the BLEDevice Lib.
From this lib I use the BLE Client Example. I have a BLE Device (LED Lamp) and want to turn it on and off.
With the NRF Connect App I figured out which Service and Characterisic is needed for this action.
If I try to use my ESP for this it does not do anything...more I get errors. The thing that I don't get is, if I use another Service and Characteristic from the same Device from which I can read the Devicename, this works without a problem. I tested another different BLE Device and this I can also control with my code. Does anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong or what I'm missing?
I hope someone can help.
Thanks in regard.
i'm a little clueless. I use a ESP32 with the Arduino IDE and the BLEDevice Lib.
From this lib I use the BLE Client Example. I have a BLE Device (LED Lamp) and want to turn it on and off.
With the NRF Connect App I figured out which Service and Characterisic is needed for this action.
If I try to use my ESP for this it does not do anything...more I get errors. The thing that I don't get is, if I use another Service and Characteristic from the same Device from which I can read the Devicename, this works without a problem. I tested another different BLE Device and this I can also control with my code. Does anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong or what I'm missing?
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/**
* A BLE client example that is rich in capabilities.
* There is a lot new capabilities implemented.
* author unknown
* updated by chegewara
*/
#include "BLEDevice.h"
//#include "BLEScan.h"
// The remote service we wish to connect to.
static BLEUUID serviceUUID("0000fe0f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb");
//this service and Characteristic works
//static BLEUUID serviceUUID1("00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb");
//static BLEUUID charUUID("00002A00-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb");
static BLEUUID serviceUUID1("932C32BD-0000-47A2-835A-A8D455B859DD");
static BLEUUID charUUID("932C32BD-0002-47A2-835A-A8D455B859DD");
static BLEUUID charUUID1("932C32BD-0003-47A2-835A-A8D455B859DD");
static boolean doConnect = false;
static boolean connected = false;
static boolean doScan = false;
static BLERemoteCharacteristic* pRemoteCharacteristic;
static BLEAdvertisedDevice* myDevice;
static void notifyCallback(
BLERemoteCharacteristic* pBLERemoteCharacteristic,
uint8_t* pData,
size_t length,
bool isNotify) {
Serial.print("Notify callback for characteristic ");
Serial.print(pBLERemoteCharacteristic->getUUID().toString().c_str());
Serial.print(" of data length ");
Serial.println(length);
Serial.print("data: ");
Serial.println((char*)pData);
}
class MyClientCallback : public BLEClientCallbacks {
void onConnect(BLEClient* pclient) {
}
void onDisconnect(BLEClient* pclient) {
connected = false;
Serial.println("onDisconnect");
}
};
bool connectToServer() {
Serial.print("Forming a connection to ");
Serial.println(myDevice->getAddress().toString().c_str());
BLEClient* pClient = BLEDevice::createClient();
Serial.println(" - Created client");
pClient->setClientCallbacks(new MyClientCallback());
// Connect to the remove BLE Server.
pClient->connect(myDevice); // if you pass BLEAdvertisedDevice instead of address, it will be recognized type of peer device address (public or private)
Serial.println(" - Connected to server");
// Obtain a reference to the service we are after in the remote BLE server.
BLERemoteService* pRemoteService = pClient->getService(serviceUUID1);
if (pRemoteService == nullptr) {
Serial.print("Failed to find our service UUID: ");
Serial.println(serviceUUID.toString().c_str());
pClient->disconnect();
return false;
}
Serial.println(" - Found our service");
// Obtain a reference to the characteristic in the service of the remote BLE server.
pRemoteCharacteristic = pRemoteService->getCharacteristic(charUUID);
Serial.println("1");
if (pRemoteCharacteristic == nullptr) {
Serial.print("Failed to find our characteristic UUID: ");
Serial.println(charUUID.toString().c_str());
pClient->disconnect();
return false;
}else if(pRemoteCharacteristic == NULL)
{
Serial.println("FUCK");
return false;
}
Serial.println(" - Found our characteristic");
// Read the value of the characteristic.
if(pRemoteCharacteristic->canRead()) {
std::string value;
uint8_t* test = pRemoteCharacteristic->readRawData();
Serial.print("The characteristic value was: ");
//Serial.println(value.c_str());
Serial.println(*test);
}
if(pRemoteCharacteristic->canNotify())
pRemoteCharacteristic->registerForNotify(notifyCallback);
connected = true;
}
/**
* Scan for BLE servers and find the first one that advertises the service we are looking for.
*/
class MyAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks: public BLEAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks {
/**
* Called for each advertising BLE server.
*/
void onResult(BLEAdvertisedDevice advertisedDevice) {
Serial.print("BLE Advertised Device found: ");
Serial.println(advertisedDevice.toString().c_str());
// We have found a device, let us now see if it contains the service we are looking for.
if (advertisedDevice.haveServiceUUID() && advertisedDevice.isAdvertisingService(serviceUUID)) {
BLEDevice::getScan()->stop();
myDevice = new BLEAdvertisedDevice(advertisedDevice);
doConnect = true;
doScan = true;
} // Found our server
} // onResult
}; // MyAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks
void setup() {
Serial.begin(115200);
Serial.println("Starting Arduino BLE Client application...");
BLEDevice::init("");
// Retrieve a Scanner and set the callback we want to use to be informed when we
// have detected a new device. Specify that we want active scanning and start the
// scan to run for 5 seconds.
BLEScan* pBLEScan = BLEDevice::getScan();
pBLEScan->setAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks(new MyAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks());
pBLEScan->setInterval(1349);
pBLEScan->setWindow(449);
pBLEScan->setActiveScan(true);
pBLEScan->start(5, false);
} // End of setup.
// This is the Arduino main loop function.
void loop() {
// If the flag "doConnect" is true then we have scanned for and found the desired
// BLE Server with which we wish to connect. Now we connect to it. Once we are
// connected we set the connected flag to be true.
if (doConnect == true) {
if (connectToServer()) {
Serial.println("We are now connected to the BLE Server.");
} else {
Serial.println("We have failed to connect to the server; there is nothin more we will do.");
}
doConnect = false;
}
// If we are connected to a peer BLE Server, update the characteristic each time we are reached
// with the current time since boot.
if (connected) {
String newValue = "Time since boot: " + String(millis()/1000);
Serial.println("Setting new characteristic value to \"" + newValue + "\"");
// Set the characteristic's value to be the array of bytes that is actually a string.
pRemoteCharacteristic->writeValue(newValue.c_str(), newValue.length());
}else if(doScan){
BLEDevice::getScan()->start(0); // this is just eample to start scan after disconnect, most likely there is better way to do it in arduino
}
delay(1000); // Delay a second between loops.
} // End of loop
Thanks in regard.