Vendor Descriptors on Custom BLE GATT Service
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:54 pm
Hello, I've been trying to set up my own BLE GATT service. I've managed to work my way through the existing documentation with some effort and get things working (almost). I'm able to successfully use my custom service and characteristics, but for some reason my custom descriptor is not showing.
Here is my BLE configuration:
And here are my commands:
Above, we can see the descriptors specified in the CSV: three 0x2902 (CCCD) and three 0x338586FE4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2 (my custom descriptor). When I connect to the device via an Android Tablet, I'm able to see all three characteristics and the CCCD for each. However, my custom descriptor is not present.
If I remove my custom descriptors from the CSV but leave the CCCD descriptors, I see an improvement:
I also tried changing the first instance of my custom descriptor to 0x2901 (Characteristic User Description). When I do this, AT=BLEGATTSCHAR? reports 0x2901 and 0x2902 descriptors on the first characteristic, then none for the rest.
This would seem to indicate to me that something is going wrong while processing my custom descriptors. It seems processing my custom descriptor also prevents it from properly processing subsequent SIG descriptors correctly (though not entirely, since the clien still reports the, it's just that the server won't show them via the AT command). Are vendor descriptors not supported?
Here is my BLE configuration:
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index,uuid_len,uuid,perm,val_max_len,val_cur_len,value
0,16,0x2800,0x1,2,2,180A
1,16,0x2803,0x1,1,1,2
2,16,0x2A29,0x1,16,10,5865766f2c20496e632e
3,16,0x2803,0x1,1,1,2
4,16,0x2A26,0x1,16,6,76302e302e31
5,16,0x2800,0x1,16,16,338586FB4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2
6,16,0x2803,0x1,1,1,10
7,128,0x338586FC4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x1,9,0,
8,128,0x338586FE4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x1,1,1,0
9,16,0x2902,0x11,2,2,0000
10,16,0x2803,0x1,1,1,10
11,128,0x338586FC4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x1,9,0,
12,128,0x338586FE4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x1,1,1,0
13,16,0x2902,0x11,2,2,0000
14,16,0x2803,0x1,1,1,10
15,128,0x338586FD4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x1,9,0,
16,128,0x338586FE4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x1,1,1,0
17,16,0x2902,0x11,2,2,0000
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ready
AT
OK
AT+BLEINIT=2
OK
AT+BLEGATTSSRVCRE
OK
AT+BLEGATTSSRV?
+BLEGATTSSRV:1,0,0x180A,1
+BLEGATTSSRV:2,0,0x338586FB4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,1
OK
AT+BLEGATTSCHAR?
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"char",1,1,0x2A29,0x02
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"char",1,2,0x2A26,0x02
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"char",2,1,0x338586FC4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x10
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"char",2,2,0x338586FC4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x10
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"char",2,3,0x338586FD4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x10
OK
If I remove my custom descriptors from the CSV but leave the CCCD descriptors, I see an improvement:
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AT+BLEGATTSCHAR?
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"char",1,1,0x2A29,0x02
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"char",1,2,0x2A26,0x02
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"char",2,1,0x338586FC4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x10
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"desc",2,1,1,0x2902
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"char",2,2,0x338586FC4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x10
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"desc",2,2,1,0x2902
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"char",2,3,0x338586FD4CAB422A87C479CFD0B2D2D2,0x10
+BLEGATTSCHAR:"desc",2,3,1,0x2902
This would seem to indicate to me that something is going wrong while processing my custom descriptors. It seems processing my custom descriptor also prevents it from properly processing subsequent SIG descriptors correctly (though not entirely, since the clien still reports the, it's just that the server won't show them via the AT command). Are vendor descriptors not supported?