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Zimbu
May 12, 2019, 9:31:23 PM5/12/19
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Struggling with this for two full days now, so I'm finally crying for help...
What I want to do is to send a byte array from my MIT AI2 app to a BLE beacon that I have connected to.
Everything works fine. I'm connected successfully, I can read data from various characteristics (ReadBytes and ReadStrings), etc. Now I need to send a byte array in order to UNLOCK the beacon so I can make some changes to the configuration of the beacon.
In nRF Connect, I simply send 0x30303030303030303030303030303030 (hex for 0000000000000000) to the correct characteristic UUID, and violá, the beacon is unlocked. Now I am trying to do the same in my MIT AI2 app.
I have tried every variation of WriteBytes, WriteStrings, WriteInts, etc. etc. that I have found in the forums, but nothing works...here's are just a few examples of the many approaches that I have tried:
etc. etc.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Zimbu
Chris Ward
May 12, 2019, 9:48:13 PM5/12/19
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Hi Zimbu
Try making the list (of zero integers) as a Global variable, and feeding that to the BLE write bytes function. Of course, one too many or one too less zeros would cause a failure.
I'm surprised that you can unlock a BLE Beacon in this way, it should be far more secure...........
ABG
May 12, 2019, 10:29:59 PM5/12/19
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0x3030303030303030 (hex for 0000000000000000)
So which is it, 8 bytes or 16 bytes?
ABG
ABG
May 12, 2019, 10:43:25 PM5/12/19
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Character '0' is hex 0x30, but is decimal 48.
Have you tried changing the list of decimal 30's to a list of decimal 48's ?
AI2 doesn't really have hex support, so every number is assumed decimal.
(listening for faraway sound of facepalm)
ABG
Zimbu
May 12, 2019, 10:50:21 PM5/12/19
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My bad. It should be 0x30303030303030303030303030303030 (hex for 0000000000000000). I will correct the original post. Thanks for pointing that out.
Zimbu
May 12, 2019, 10:55:13 PM5/12/19
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O M G....
ABG's suggestion works! (slap my head emoji goes here)
Zimbu
May 12, 2019, 10:58:12 PM5/12/19
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It's fairly secure since this password can be modified by the beacon owner. Also, if the beacon is not in "connectable mode" (set via the app), then someone would need to find the beacon, click the button (hardware way of making the beacon connectable), then guess the correct password.
ABG
May 13, 2019, 1:13:48 PM5/13/19
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Thanks for the update!
ABG
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