QT BLE 4.0 Peripheral Role Full Tutorial or Example

Buguito

Hi guys,
I've succesfully developed a client (a.k.a central role) with QT Bluetooth LE SDK to work against some electronics of my own. But now, i need to implement the Peripheral Role with QT and my custom GATT Profile

So far, i've outlined a very small service that will allow to read and write the WPA Config for Linux (to setup the WiFi connection of a Raspberry Pi) using Bluetooth Developer Studio. I've followed the example at the docs to setup discovery of this service.

bool BluetoothServer::initialize(std::string mac) {

  Logger::addLine("BluetoothServer","Initializing with MAC Address: "+mac);

  // Set mac address
  macAddress = mac;

  // Set BaseStation Bluetooth Address
  QBluetoothAddress address(QString::fromUtf8(macAddress.c_str()));

  // Create Local Device
  localDevice = new QBluetoothLocalDevice(address);
  if (!localDevice->isValid()) {
    Logger::addLine("BluetoothServer","Local Bluetooh device not available. Aborting");
    return false;
  }

  // Turn Bluetooth on
  localDevice->powerOn();

  // Make it visible to others
  localDevice->setHostMode(QBluetoothLocalDevice::HostDiscoverable);

  QLowEnergyCharacteristicData charDataNetworkSSID;
  charDataNetworkSSID.setUuid(QBluetoothUuid(QString("{2A9669DE-9AA3-4304-8E06-B122DBC5991B}")));
  charDataNetworkSSID.setValue(QByteArray(""));
  charDataNetworkSSID.setProperties(QLowEnergyCharacteristic::Read | QLowEnergyCharacteristic::WriteNoResponse);

  QLowEnergyCharacteristicData charDataPSK;
  charDataPSK.setUuid(QBluetoothUuid(QString("{2A963AB9-9AA3-4304-8E06-B122DBC5991B}")));
  charDataPSK.setValue(QByteArray(""));
  charDataPSK.setProperties(QLowEnergyCharacteristic::Read | QLowEnergyCharacteristic::WriteNoResponse);

  QLowEnergyServiceData serviceData;
  serviceData.setUuid(QBluetoothUuid(QString("{2A960000-9AA3-4304-8E06-B122DBC5991B}")));
  serviceData.setType(QLowEnergyServiceData::ServiceTypePrimary);
  serviceData.addCharacteristic(charDataNetworkSSID);
  serviceData.addCharacteristic(charDataPSK);

  if (!serviceData.isValid())
    Logger::addLine("BluetoothServer","LE ServiceData is NOT Valid");

  QList<QBluetoothUuid> servicesList;// = QList<QBluetoothUuid>();
  servicesList << QBluetoothUuid(QString("{2A960000-9AA3-4304-8E06-B122DBC5991B}"));

  QLowEnergyAdvertisingData advertisingData;
  advertisingData.setDiscoverability(QLowEnergyAdvertisingData::DiscoverabilityGeneral);
  advertisingData.setIncludePowerLevel(false);
  advertisingData.setLocalName("GSense");
  advertisingData.setServices(servicesList);
  lowEnergyController = QLowEnergyController::createPeripheral();
  lowEnergyService = lowEnergyController->addService(serviceData);
  lowEnergyController->startAdvertising(QLowEnergyAdvertisingParameters(), advertisingData, advertisingData);

  Logger::addLine("BluetoothServer","LE Service ready and awaiting connections");

  return true;
}

So, it's advertised. Though, when i use a BLE Scanner from an Android Cellphone and connect to it, it says "Discovering Services" and it does not show up my custom service . It only shows the Generic Attribute, bla bla.

So the question is, do you guys have a working example as how to get my service discovered and also provide the callbacks to read and write to my Characteristics?. I'll keep trying with the documentation looking up the QLowEnergyService class and so on, but you might have a properly documented example for the Peripheral Role from start to end.

The doc at: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtbluetooth-le-overview.html just addresses the Advertisement of a custom GATT and the examples at http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtexamplesandtutorials.html only fully develops the Central Role AFAIK.

Thanks in advance.

Alan

SGaist

Hi,

I'd recommend bringing this to the interest mailing list. You'll find there Qt's developers/maintainers. This forum is more user oriented.

SherifOmran

@Buguito
I am trying to do a similar project, did you reach some result to this issue?