Hi Marco, On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Marco Palumbi <marco@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > thank you for the replay Luiz. > > > On 27/05/2018 09:01, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote: >> >> Hi Marco, >> >> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 9:49 PM, Marco Palumbi <marco@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> hello to all, >>> >>> I am trying to let BlueZ advertise on BLE with a name longer than 9 >>> character. is this possible? >>> it seems to me that BlueZ uses the shortname to advertise over BLE. >>> Any suggestion? >> >> How exactly are you trying to advertise? Btw, you should be able to >> check what type we are using in the advertisement with use of btmon. >> > I tried to play with btmon but I wasn't able to find useful information from > it (probably I am not using it correctly..) > here is what I have done (BlueZ 5.41 - Digi Embedded Yocto 2.2-r3) > > after starting the bluetoothd > > btmgmt -i hci0 le on > btmgmt -i hci0 connectable on > btmgmt -i hci0 advertising on > btmgmt -i hci0 discov on > btmgmt -i hci0 name MyVeryLongNameThatExceedsNineCharacters > > now, if I search for BLE devices from an adroid phone using the "nRF Connct" > (app from Nordic Semi for BLE tast) I can see my device shown only with this > name: > > MyVeryLong (indeed they are 10 chars and not 9) > > while if I do a "classic" ble scan from android I see it shown twice both > with the long and the short name. > > Nevertheless the android app "nRF Connct" is able to get longer names from > devices not using BlueZ stack > > is this a limit of BlueZ or there is something wrong on my setup? Except that you should be using btmgmt as that requires sudo/root, I actually wonder why you haven't tried with bluetoothctl as that would use the D-Bus API available to applications? -- Luiz Augusto von Dentz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
