Handle devices that change their advertisements

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Handle devices that change their advertisements

bradjc opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

Devices like BLEES alternate between eddystone and data advertisements, and it seems summon groups by ID based on the first advertisement, and doesn't check for subsequent advertisements.

Branden Ghena · Answer 1 · Thu Oct 08 2015 02:17:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Seconded. This makes summon look really unresponsive. How hard would this
be to fix?
On Oct 7, 2015 2:09 PM, "Brad Campbell" notifications@github.com wrote:

Devices like BLEES alternate between eddystone and data advertisements,
and it seems summon groups by ID based on the first advertisement, and
doesn't check for subsequent advertisements.

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Thomas Zachariah · Answer 2 · Sun Oct 11 2015 23:37:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

New update pushed to the play store handles changing advertisements.

Brad Campbell · Answer 3 · Mon Oct 12 2015 00:27:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

So this appears to use the most recent advertisement, which is not what we need. If the peripheral ever sends an eddystone adv, summon should use that, and ignore future advertisements.

Now BLEES devices show up on the list, then disapear, then come back, as different advertisements come in.

Thomas Zachariah · Answer 4 · Tue Oct 13 2015 03:30:04 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Updated and verified with Powerblade. If a BLE device is detected, it will sit in the "Other Devices" list until it sees a Summon-compatible ad. Depending on how often advertisements are changing, it may take a while for this to happen. I will experiment with increasing refresh rate for quicker detection.