Duration of BLE scan

[newsettler_AI]

Hi,

I want to increase scan window of BLE scan .

I found structure where described this parameters:

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    uint16_t                scan_interval;          /*!< Scan interval. This is defined as the time interval from
                                                      when the Controller started its last LE scan until it begins the subsequent LE scan.
                                                      Range: 0x0004 to 0x4000 Default: 0x0010 (10 ms)
                                                      Time = N * 0.625 msec
                                                      Time Range: 2.5 msec to 10.24 seconds*/
    uint16_t                scan_window;            /*!< Scan window. The duration of the LE scan. LE_Scan_Window
                                                      shall be less than or equal to LE_Scan_Interval
                                                      Range: 0x0004 to 0x4000 Default: 0x0010 (10 ms)
                                                      Time = N * 0.625 msec
                                                      Time Range: 2.5 msec to 10240 msec */

Looking for comment part it seems that max window I can get is 10.24 sec.

But at the same time I see this DURATION in esp_gap_cb function at this example
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tr ... att_client

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    case ESP_GAP_BLE_SCAN_PARAM_SET_COMPLETE_EVT: {
        //the unit of the duration is second
        uint32_t duration = 30;
        esp_ble_gap_start_scanning(duration);
        break;

So, looks like it is possible to increase scan_interval more than ~10 sec? How about scan_window? I need about 30 seconds.

[kolban]

The way I interpret this story is as follows:

scan_window - The interval of time during which a scan will be performed.
scan_interval - The interval of time between actual scans of duration defined in scan_window
duration - The interval of time over which total scanning will be performed before scanning stops.

For example .... imagine I wanted a scan to actively listen to radio for 100 msecs and not be scanning for 100msecs and perform this
for 10 seconds.

I might set:
scan_interval = 200msecs (question: this might be 100msecs)
scan_window = 100msecs
duration = 10 seconds

think of scan_window as interval when radio is actively receiving and scan_interval as interval between active receiving and duration as the amount of time to repeat the above.

In your story, if you want to radio receive continuously for 30 seconds (with the equivalent power being consumed) then:
scan_interval = 1 second.
scan_window = 1 second.
duration = 30 seconds.

In theory, this says that we will actively listen on the radio for 1 second ... since the scan_interval is also 1 second then the scan will complete immediately after the scan_window. The duration being 30 seconds means that we will repeat this for 30 seconds.

[newsettler_AI]

Thanks for explanation!
Hope that I am interpreting this correctly

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[kolban]

That's a great diagram. What isn't clear to me from my reading is the notion of "interval" and how it relates to "window". The docs say that window must always be <= interval. This makes me think that an interval might be "the size of window plus the size between windows".

So for example, if window is 100 msecs and interval is 200 msecs, then there will be a scan for 100 msecs and then idle for the next 100 msecs and then this repeats for duration period.

I think we may find that if we set window to be 100msecs and interval to also be 100msecs, it might be that a scan executes for 100 msecs and then we find that "interval" has elapsed and we repeat immediately ... for duration in total... effectively a constant scan.

[Greg_61]

Hello. I wake up this post because my problem looks like :
I need to scan to know the name and RSSI servers every 100ms maximum. I am stuck because I can not reduce the duration parameter to less than 1s.
Thank you for your help

[chegewara]

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... g8uint32_t

What you can do is to have procedure where you call esp_ble_gap_stop_scanning after 100ms.

[Greg_61]

Thank you for your answer but when I launch the procedure :

pBLEScan->start(scanTime, false);

I do not have my hand until the end of the procedure which lasts 1s ...

[Greg_61]

Hi, I understand better my problem : I can see in the callback definition inton BLEAdvertisedDevice.h :

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1. class BLEAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks {
2. public:
3.     virtual ~BLEAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks() {}
4.     /**
5.      * @brief Called when a new scan result is detected.
6.      *
7.      * As we are scanning, we will find new devices.  When found, this call back is invoked with a reference to the
8.      * device that was found.  During any individual scan, a device will only be detected one time.
9.      */
10.     virtual void onResult(BLEAdvertisedDevice advertisedDevice) = 0;
11. };

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I would like this callback to be invoked at each scan and not once. Is it possible?