A template for applications where some small amount of data needs to be notified to a phone app over BLE. It is a good starting point for notifications.

Dependencies:   BLE_API mbed nRF51822

Demo for an Input Service

To help you create your own BLE services, we've created a series of service templates. The *input service template* demonstrates the use of a simple input (boolean values) from a read-only characteristic.

The template covers:

1. Setting up advertising and connection states.

2. Assigning UUIDs to the service and its characteristic.

3. Creating an input characteristic: read-only, boolean, with notifications. This characteristic is updated according to the button's state.

4. Constructing a service class and adding it to the BLE stack.

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Comitter:
rgrover1
Date:
Tue Feb 17 16:46:22 2015 +0000
Child:
1:7202df456146
Commit message:
BLE_Button

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--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/BLE_API.lib	Tue Feb 17 16:46:22 2015 +0000
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+http://mbed.org/teams/Bluetooth-Low-Energy/code/BLE_API/#1956023d42fb
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/ButtonService.h	Tue Feb 17 16:46:22 2015 +0000
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+/* mbed Microcontroller Library
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2013 ARM Limited
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __BLE_BUTTON_SERVICE_H__
+#define __BLE_BUTTON_SERVICE_H__
+
+class ButtonService {
+public:
+    const static uint16_t BUTTON_SERVICE_UUID              = 0xA000;
+    const static uint16_t BUTTON_STATE_CHARACTERISTIC_UUID = 0xA000;
+
+    ButtonService(BLEDevice &_ble, bool buttonPressedInitial) :
+        ble(_ble), buttonState(BUTTON_STATE_CHARACTERISTIC_UUID, &buttonPressedInitial, GattCharacteristic::BLE_GATT_CHAR_PROPERTIES_NOTIFY)
+    {
+        GattCharacteristic *charTable[] = {&buttonState};
+        GattService         buttonService(ButtonService::BUTTON_SERVICE_UUID, charTable, sizeof(charTable) / sizeof(GattCharacteristic *));
+        ble.addService(buttonService);
+    }
+
+    void updateButtonState(bool newState) {
+        ble.updateCharacteristicValue(buttonState.getValueHandle(), (uint8_t *)&newState, sizeof(bool));
+    }
+
+private:
+    BLEDevice                        &ble;
+    ReadOnlyGattCharacteristic<bool>  buttonState;
+};
+
+#endif /* #ifndef __BLE_BUTTON_SERVICE_H__ */
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/main.cpp	Tue Feb 17 16:46:22 2015 +0000
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+/* mbed Microcontroller Library
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2013 ARM Limited
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include "mbed.h"
+#include "BLEDevice.h"
+#include "ButtonService.h"
+
+BLEDevice   ble;
+DigitalOut  led1(LED1);
+InterruptIn button(BUTTON1);
+
+const static char     DEVICE_NAME[] = "Button";
+static const uint16_t uuid16_list[] = {ButtonService::BUTTON_SERVICE_UUID};
+
+ButtonService *buttonServicePtr;
+
+void buttonPressedCallback(void)
+{
+    buttonServicePtr->updateButtonState(true);
+}
+
+void buttonReleasedCallback(void)
+{
+    buttonServicePtr->updateButtonState(false);
+}
+
+void disconnectionCallback(Gap::Handle_t handle, Gap::DisconnectionReason_t reason)
+{
+    ble.startAdvertising();
+}
+
+void periodicCallback(void)
+{
+    led1 = !led1; /* Do blinky on LED1 to indicate system aliveness. */
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    led1 = 1;
+    Ticker ticker;
+    ticker.attach(periodicCallback, 1);
+    button.fall(buttonPressedCallback);
+    button.rise(buttonReleasedCallback);
+
+    ble.init();
+    ble.onDisconnection(disconnectionCallback);
+
+    ButtonService buttonService(ble, false /* initial value for button pressed */);
+    buttonServicePtr = &buttonService;
+
+    /* setup advertising */
+    ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::BREDR_NOT_SUPPORTED | GapAdvertisingData::LE_GENERAL_DISCOVERABLE);
+    ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::COMPLETE_LIST_16BIT_SERVICE_IDS, (uint8_t *)uuid16_list, sizeof(uuid16_list));
+    ble.accumulateAdvertisingPayload(GapAdvertisingData::COMPLETE_LOCAL_NAME, (uint8_t *)DEVICE_NAME, sizeof(DEVICE_NAME));
+    ble.setAdvertisingType(GapAdvertisingParams::ADV_CONNECTABLE_UNDIRECTED);
+    ble.setAdvertisingInterval(Gap::MSEC_TO_ADVERTISEMENT_DURATION_UNITS(1000)); /* 1000ms. */
+    ble.startAdvertising();
+
+    while (true) {
+        ble.waitForEvent();
+    }
+}
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/mbed.bld	Tue Feb 17 16:46:22 2015 +0000
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+http://mbed.org/users/mbed_official/code/mbed/builds/9ad691361fac
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--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/nRF51822.lib	Tue Feb 17 16:46:22 2015 +0000
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+http://mbed.org/teams/Nordic-Semiconductor/code/nRF51822/#0e7a9efee6d7