How to reinitialize BLE?

[vonnieda]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to reinitialize (shutdown, restart) BLE and every method I try seems to cause an assert or crash. Is there any documentation anywhere that describes the right sequence of calls to bring down BLE after having brought it up and initialized a GATTS service?

My init process looks like this:

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esp_bt_controller_mem_release(ESP_BT_MODE_CLASSIC_BT);
esp_bt_controller_config_t bt_cfg = BT_CONTROLLER_INIT_CONFIG_DEFAULT();
esp_bt_controller_init(&bt_cfg);
esp_bt_controller_enable(ESP_BT_MODE_BLE))
esp_bluedroid_init())
esp_bluedroid_enable())
esp_ble_gap_register_callback(gap_event_handler))
esp_ble_gatts_register_callback(gatts_event_handler))
esp_ble_gatts_app_register(0))
esp_ble_gatt_set_local_mtu(500))
esp_ble_gap_start_advertising(&adv_params);

If I try to run those in reverse, like this:

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esp_ble_gap_disconnect(connected_device_address);
esp_ble_gap_stop_advertising();
esp_ble_gatts_stop_service(gl_profile.service_handle);
esp_ble_gatts_delete_service(gl_profile.service_handle);
esp_ble_gatts_app_unregister(gl_profile.gatts_if);
esp_bluedroid_disable();
esp_bluedroid_deinit();
esp_bt_controller_disable();
esp_bt_controller_deinit();

I get:

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assertion "config != NULL" failed: file "/Users/jason/esp/esp-idf/components/bt/bluedroid/btc/core/btc_config.c", line 312, function: btc_config_flush
abort() was called at PC 0x400f097f on core 0
0x400f097f: __assert_func at /home/jeroen/esp8266/esp32/newlib_xtensa-2.2.0-bin/newlib_xtensa-2.2.0/xtensa-esp32-elf/newlib/libc/stdlib/../../../.././newlib/libc/stdlib/assert.c:63 (discriminator 8)


Backtrace: 0x400967fc:0x3ffb3bf0 0x400969f7:0x3ffb3c10 0x400f097f:0x3ffb3c30 0x401310f2:0x3ffb3c60 0x40131103:0x3ffb3c80 0x4011916f:0x3ffb3ca0 0x401191b4:0x3ffb3cc0 0x40119245:0x3ffb3ce0
0x400967fc: invoke_abort at /Users/jason/esp/esp-idf/components/esp32/./panic.c:648

0x400969f7: abort at /Users/jason/esp/esp-idf/components/esp32/./panic.c:648

0x400f097f: __assert_func at /home/jeroen/esp8266/esp32/newlib_xtensa-2.2.0-bin/newlib_xtensa-2.2.0/xtensa-esp32-elf/newlib/libc/stdlib/../../../.././newlib/libc/stdlib/assert.c:63 (discriminator 8)

0x401310f2: btc_config_flush at /Users/jason/esp/esp-idf/components/bt/bluedroid/btc/core/btc_config.c:329

0x40131103: btc_config_shut_down at /Users/jason/esp/esp-idf/components/bt/bluedroid/btc/core/btc_config.c:329

0x4011916f: btc_disable_bluetooth at /Users/jason/esp/esp-idf/components/bt/bluedroid/btc/core/btc_main.c:47

0x401191b4: btc_main_call_handler at /Users/jason/esp/esp-idf/components/bt/bluedroid/btc/core/btc_main.c:105

0x40119245: btc_task at /Users/jason/esp/esp-idf/components/bt/bluedroid/btc/core/btc_task.c:101

The offending call seems to be esp_bluedroid_disable().

So, can anyone point me to information about how to properly shutdown and restart BLE?

Thanks,
Jason

[kolban]

I may be completely off target here ... but a thought strikes me. Some of those commands may be asynchronous meaning that when you request something to be done, it is not immediately performed before return but instead you are notified by an event by callback when it is complete. Could it be that you have to wait for indication that the previous esp_ble_* function has completed before performing the next command?

[vonnieda]

I may be completely off target here ... but a thought strikes me. Some of those commands may be asynchronous meaning that when you request something to be done, it is not immediately performed before return but instead you are notified by an event by callback when it is complete. Could it be that you have to wait for indication that the previous esp_ble_* function has completed before performing the next command?

Hi kolban,

Thank you for your response. Your comment helped me get a little further, but I'm still stuck. I was able to finish the de-init process by moving some of the calls to the gatts_event_handler, but now when I try to re-initialize I get a number of errors.

I also found in the documentation that esp_bt_controller_deinit() is not really finished: "This function is not whole completed, esp_bt_controller_init cannot called after this function."

If I remove that call, then I get an error 0x0103 on esp_bt_controller_enable(ESP_BT_MODE_BLE), and if I remove that call I get an error 0x0103 on esp_bluedroid_init().

So, I'll repeat my question: Does anyone know how to correctly shutdown and then restart BLE?

[sammaeliv]

im looking for the same thing i was able to stop ble to send http info so now i cant turn on ble again ...

i use this

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esp_bluedroid_disable();
esp_bluedroid_deinit();
esp_bt_controller_disable();
esp_bt_controller_deinit();
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[Gautier]

I'm working on patterns to reduce power and working on shutting down BLE but not putting chip to sleep. I am successfully shutting down bt radio I believe but struggling to bring back up the ble services.

I'm wondering what the suggested steps would be. I'm using ble server, callback and advertising.

[chegewara]

This is about bluetooth light sleep, not init/re-init bt, but maybe help you:
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/is ... -500312453