Bluetooth promiscuity - mergBLE confusion
Ben Rubinstein
benr_mc at cogapp.com
Mon Feb 3 13:45:46 EST 2020
If I execute `mergBLEScanForPeripheralsWithServices` with no parameters, I
then get a shed-load of `mergBLEDidDiscoverPeripheral` messages, as expected
(and as warned by the documentation for the service UUIDs parameter:
> If empty all discovered peripherals are returned regardless of their supported services (not recommended).
One of the many peripherals that `mergBLEDidDiscoverPeripheral` reports has
the service I'm expecting. If I specify this service UUID in
`mergBLEScanForPeripheralsWithServices`, I get... exactly the same result as
before, i.e. all the peripherals in range are discovered, regardless of the
fact that only one is advertising the service.
I'm also monitoring the `mergBLEPeripheralDidDiscoverServices` message; but
this is never received.
Another indication that I may not fully understand what I'm doing: I notice
that of all the peripherals reported via `mergBLEDidDiscoverPeripheral`, only
one includes any service info - the one which is actually a phone running
another LiveCode stack which has used `mergBLECreateService`. While it is
gratifying to find this one, it's surprising to me that none of the large
cloud of other BLE devices that the scan is picking up advertise any services.
What am I doing wrong?
TIA,
Ben
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