NimBLE-Arduino 1.4.2: problem with device name?

[osmany-ferrer]

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Hello,

My sketch setups NimBLEDevice::init("TEST"); but only "TE" name is advertised. Any name attempt only shows its first two letters. This happened after updating NimBLE-Arduino to 1.4.2 and ArduinoEsp32 3.0.2 update was aborted. My board is ArduinoEsp32 2.0.11 Multiple nrFConnect clients see the same two-letter name.

While updating ArduinoESP32 3.0.2 i suddently read this, so i aborted.

Migration from 2.x to 3.0 BLE Changes in APIs Changed APIs return and parameter type from std::string to Arduino style String. Changed UUID data type from uint16_t to BLEUUID class. BLEScan::start and BLEScan::getResults methods return type changed from BLEScanResults to BLEScanResults*. Is NimBLE-Arduino 1.4.2 compatible to ArduinoESP32 3.0.2?

Any idea, please, this is driving me crazy, Thanks in advance, Osmany

[osmany-ferrer]

Solution,

I changed pAdvertising->setScanResponse(false); to pAdvertising->setScanResponse(true);

[h2zero]

Seems to be a common thing, the original library did not include the flags data in the advertisement, which allowed for 3 more bytes to be advertised. You could do this here as well instead of turning on the scan response by using custom data that does not include the flags, but I don't recommend it as it goes against the BLE specs unless your device is not connectable.