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Linear decrease of advert rate to conserve battery

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Start advertising aggressively when powered on then
slow down linearly over 75 seconds. This will conserve
battery by not advertising rapidly the whole time we
are seeking a connection. The slowest rate is
approximately once every 4.5 seconds to balance
responsiveness and battery life.

We use a fixed advertising duration of 5 seconds and start
with a 62.5 ms advertising interval. Every 5 seconds
(the advertising duration) we step up to a larger
advertising interval (slower advertising). We continue
to increase the advertising interval linearly for
75 seconds from the start of advertising. At 75 seconds
we have an advertising interval of 4.44 seconds which we
keep until connected. A reboot will restart the sequence.

When we receive a disconnect event we restart the sequence
with fast advertising and then slow down as described above.
Note that we are not using the BLE high duty cycle setting to
change the advertising rate. The rate is managed by repeatedly
setting the minimum and maximum intervals.

The linear rate of decrease and the slowest interval size
were determined experimentally by the author. The 5.3 Core
spec suggests that you not advertise slower than once
every 1.2 seconds to preserve responsiveness but we
ignored that suggestion.
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James A. Jerkins 2021-09-04 15:26:50 -05:00
parent 3e1fe687b8
commit c32ba844e0
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src/components/ble/NimbleController.cpp
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@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ void NimbleController::StartAdvertising() {
adv_params.conn_mode = BLE_GAP_CONN_MODE_UND;
adv_params.disc_mode = BLE_GAP_DISC_MODE_GEN;
adv_params.itvl_min = advInterval;
adv_params.itvl_max = advInterval + 100;
fields.flags = BLE_HS_ADV_F_DISC_GEN | BLE_HS_ADV_F_BREDR_UNSUP;
fields.uuids128 = &dfuServiceUuid;
@ -148,6 +150,8 @@ int NimbleController::OnGAPEvent(ble_gap_event* event) {
case BLE_GAP_EVENT_ADV_COMPLETE:
NRF_LOG_INFO("Advertising event : BLE_GAP_EVENT_ADV_COMPLETE");
NRF_LOG_INFO("reason=%d; status=%d", event->adv_complete.reason, event->connect.status);
if (advInterval < 7100)
advInterval += 500;
StartAdvertising();
break;
@ -181,6 +185,7 @@ int NimbleController::OnGAPEvent(ble_gap_event* event) {
alertNotificationClient.Reset();
connectionHandle = BLE_HS_CONN_HANDLE_NONE;
bleController.Disconnect();
advInterval = 100;
StartAdvertising();
break;

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src/components/ble/NimbleController.h
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@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ namespace Pinetime {
uint8_t addrType; // 1 = Random, 0 = PUBLIC
uint16_t connectionHandle = BLE_HS_CONN_HANDLE_NONE;
uint16_t advInterval = 100; // multiplied by 0.625ms, must be in 32..16384
ble_uuid128_t dfuServiceUuid {
.u {.type = BLE_UUID_TYPE_128},