BLE Advertisment publishing?

[ArcadeMachinist]

Hello!

I was recently playing with the project and can't find how to publish BLE advertisment packet, if it is possible at all.

I have a range of devices (RGB lights) that are controlled by publishing control packet as a manufacturer data of a BLE advertisment payload.

Is there any way to publish an advertisment?
Something like that can be achieved in Linux by "btmgmr adv-add -d hexdata 1"

[shmuelzon]

Hey,

It's, currently, not possible to publish advertisement packets. Not sure how to even define the MQTT payload to do that...

[ArcadeMachinist]

I would say just a JSON structure with either BLEAdvertisment1 fields for constructing the advertisment or another command just to register the raw advertisment data (sent in hex as a field in JSON).

[mhaberler]

I think that'd be super useful - in particular when combined with say https://github.com/theengs/decoder server-side

that adds 70+ meaningful sensor reports out of the box: https://decoder.theengs.io/devices/devices.html