All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
- NimBLESecurity class removed.
NimBLEDevice::setDeviceName
to change the device name after initialization.NimBLEHIDDevice::batteryLevel
returns the HID device battery level characteristic.
- Compile warning removed for esp32c3
- NimBLEDevice::getPower incorrect value when power level is -3db.
- Failed pairing when already in progress.
- Revert previous change that forced writing with response when subscribing in favor of allowing the application to decide.
- Added NimBLEHIDDevice::batteryLevel.
- Added NimBLEDevice::setDeviceName allowing for changing the device name while the BLE stack is active.
- CI build tests.
- Missing items in CHANGELOG that were not recorded correctly
- Fixed missing data from long notification values.
- Fixed NimbleCharacteristicCallbacks::onRead not being called when a non-long read command is received.
- Updated NimBLE core to use the v1.4.0 branch of esp-nimble.
- AD flags are no longer set in the advertisements of non-connectable beacons, freeing up 3 bytes of advertisement room.
- Config option CONFIG_BT_NIMBLE_DEBUG replaced with CONFIG_BT_NIMBLE_LOG_LEVEL (see src/nimconfig.h for usage)
- Config option CONFIG_NIMBLE_CPP_ENABLE_ADVERTISMENT_TYPE_TEXT renamed to CONFIG_NIMBLE_CPP_ENABLE_ADVERTISEMENT_TYPE_TEXT
- Config option CONFIG_BT_NIMBLE_TASK_STACK_SIZE renamed to CONFIG_BT_NIMBLE_HOST_TASK_STACK_SIZE
- Preliminary support for non-esp devices, NRF51 and NRF52 devices supported with n-able arduino core
- Alias added for
NimBLEServerCallbacks::onMTUChange
toonMtuChanged
in order to support porting code from original library. NimBLEAttValue
Class added to reduce and control RAM footprint of characteristic/descriptor values and support conversions from Arduino Strings and many other data types.- Bluetooth 5 extended advertising support for capable devices. CODED Phy, 2M Phy, extended advertising data, and multi-advertising are supported, periodic advertising will be implemented in the future.
- Fix compile error with ESP32S3.
- Prevent a potential crash when retrieving characteristics from a service if the result was successful but no characteristics found.
- Save resources when retrieving descriptors if the characteristic handle is the same as the end handle (no descriptors).
- Subscribing to characteristic notifications/indications will now always use write with response, as per BLE specifications.
NimBLEClient::discoverAttributes
now returns a bool value to indicate success/failure
- Crash when retrieving an attribute that does not exist on the peer.
- Memory leak when deleting client instances.
- Compilation errors for esp32s3
- When retrieving attributes from a server fails with a 128bit UUID containing the ble base UUID another attempt will be made with the 16bit version of the UUID.
- Memory leak when services are changed on server devices.
- Rare crashing that occurs when BLE commands are sent from ISR context using IPC.
- Crashing caused by uninitialized disconnect timer in client.
- Potential crash due to uninitialized advertising callback pointer.
- CONFIG_NIMBLE_CPP_DEBUG_LEVEL macro in nimconfig.h to allow setting the log level separately from the Arduino core log level.
- Memory leak when initializing/deinitializing the BLE stack caused by new FreeRTOS timers be created on each initialization.
- Workaround for latest Arduino-esp32 core that causes tasks not to block when required, which caused functions to return prematurely resulting in exceptions/crashing.
- The wrong length value was being used to set the values read from peer attributes. This has been corrected to use the proper value size.
- Workaround added for FreeRTOS bug that affected timers, causing scan and advertising timer expirations to not correctly trigger callbacks.
- Added missing macros for scan filter.
NimBLEClient::getLastError
: Gets the error code of the last function call that produces a return code from the stack.
- Corrected a compiler/linker error when an application or a library uses bluetooth classic due to the redefinition of
btInUse
.
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NimBLECharacteristic::removeDescriptor
: Dynamically remove a descriptor from a characteristic. Takes effect after all connections are closed and sends a service changed indication. -
NimBLEService::removeCharacteristic
: Dynamically remove a characteristic from a service. Takes effect after all connections are closed and sends a service changed indication -
NimBLEServerCallbacks::onMTUChange
: This is callback is called when the MTU is updated after connection with a client. -
ESP32C3 support
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Whitelist API:
NimBLEDevice::whiteListAdd
: Add a device to the whitelist.NimBLEDevice::whiteListRemove
: Remove a device from the whitelist.NimBLEDevice::onWhiteList
: Check if the device is on the whitelist.NimBLEDevice::getWhiteListCount
: Gets the size of the whitelistNimBLEDevice::getWhiteListAddress
: Get the address of a device on the whitelist by index value.
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Bond management API:
NimBLEDevice::getNumBonds
: Gets the number of bonds stored.NimBLEDevice::isBonded
: Checks if the device is bonded.NimBLEDevice::deleteAllBonds
: Deletes all bonds.NimBLEDevice::getBondedAddress
: Gets the address of a bonded device by the index value.
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NimBLECharacteristic::getCallbacks
to retrieve the current callback handler. -
Connection Information class:
NimBLEConnInfo
. -
NimBLEScan::clearDuplicateCache
: This can be used to reset the cache of advertised devices so they will be immediately discovered again.
- FreeRTOS files have been removed as they are not used by the library.
- Services, characteristics and descriptors can now be created statically and added after.
- Excess logging and some asserts removed.
- Use ESP_LOGx macros to enable using local log level filtering.
NimBLECharacteristicCallbacks::onSubscribe
Is now called after the connection is added to the vector.- Corrected bonding failure when reinitializing the BLE stack.
- Writing to a characteristic with a std::string value now correctly writes values with null characters.
- Retrieving remote descriptors now uses the characteristic end handle correctly.
- Missing data in long writes to remote descriptors.
- Hanging on task notification when sending an indication from the characteristic callback.
- BLE controller memory could be released when using Arduino as a component.
- Compile errors with NimBLE release 1.3.0.
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NimBLECharacteristic::getDescriptorByHandle
: Return the BLE Descriptor for the given handle. -
NimBLEDescriptor::getStringValue
: Get the value of this descriptor as a string. -
NimBLEServer::getServiceByHandle
: Get a service by its handle. -
NimBLEService::getCharacteristicByHandle
: Get a pointer to the characteristic object with the specified handle. -
NimBLEService::getCharacteristics
: Get the vector containing pointers to each characteristic associated with this service. Overloads to get a vector containing pointers to all the characteristics in a service with the UUID. (supports multiple same UUID's in a service)NimBLEService::getCharacteristics(const char *uuid)
NimBLEService::getCharacteristics(const NimBLEUUID &uuid)
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NimBLEAdvertisementData
New methods:NimBLEAdvertisementData::addTxPower
: Adds transmission power to the advertisement.NimBLEAdvertisementData::setPreferredParams
: Adds connection parameters to the advertisement.NimBLEAdvertisementData::setURI
: Adds URI data to the advertisement.
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NimBLEAdvertising
New methods:NimBLEAdvertising::setName
: Set the name advertised.NimBLEAdvertising::setManufacturerData
: Adds manufacturer data to the advertisement.NimBLEAdvertising::setURI
: Adds URI data to the advertisement.NimBLEAdvertising::setServiceData
: Adds service data to the advertisement.NimBLEAdvertising::addTxPower
: Adds transmission power to the advertisement.NimBLEAdvertising::reset
: Stops the current advertising and resets the advertising data to the default values.
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NimBLEDevice::setScanFilterMode
: Set the controller duplicate filter mode for filtering scanned devices. -
NimBLEDevice::setScanDuplicateCacheSize
: Sets the number of advertisements filtered before the cache is reset. -
NimBLEScan::setMaxResults
: This allows for setting a maximum number of advertised devices stored in the results vector. -
NimBLEAdvertisedDevice
New data retrieval methods added:-
haveAdvInterval/getAdvInterval
: checks if the interval is advertised / gets the advertisement interval value. -
haveConnParams/getMinInterval/getMaxInterval
: checks if the parameters are advertised / get min value / get max value. -
haveURI/getURI
: checks if a URI is advertised / gets the URI data. -
haveTargetAddress/getTargetAddressCount/getTargetAddress(index)
: checks if a target address is present / gets a count of the addresses targeted / gets the address of the target at index.
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nimconfig.h
(Arduino) is now easier to use. -
NimBLEServer::getServiceByUUID
Now takes an extra parameter of instanceID to support multiple services with the same UUID. -
NimBLEService::getCharacteristic
Now takes an extra parameter of instanceID to support multiple characteristics with the same UUID. -
NimBLEAdvertising
Transmission power is no longer advertised by default and can be added to the advertisement by callingNimBLEAdvertising::addTxPower
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NimBLEAdvertising
Custom scan response data can now be used without custom advertisement. -
NimBLEScan
Now uses the controller duplicate filter. -
NimBLEAdvertisedDevice
Has been refactored to store the complete advertisement payload and no longer parses the data from each advertisement. Instead the data will be parsed on-demand when the user application asks for specific data.
NimBLEHIDDevice
Characteristics now use encryption, this resolves an issue with communicating with devices requiring encryption for HID devices.
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NimBLEDevice::setOwnAddrType
added to enable the use of random and random-resolvable addresses, by asukiaaa -
New examples for securing and authenticating client/server connections, by mblasee.
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NimBLEAdvertising::SetMinPreferred
andNimBLEAdvertising::SetMinPreferred
re-added. -
Conditional checks added for command line config options in
nimconfig.h
to support custom configuration in platformio. -
NimBLEClient::setValue
Now takes an extra bool parameterresponse
to enable the use of write with response (default = false). -
NimBLEClient::getCharacteristic(uint16_t handle)
Enabling the use of the characteristic handle to be used to find the NimBLERemoteCharacteristic object. -
NimBLEHIDDevice
class added by wakwak-koba. -
NimBLEServerCallbacks::onDisconnect
overloaded callback added to provide a ble_gap_conn_desc parameter for the application to obtain information about the disconnected client. -
Conditional checks in
nimconfig.h
for command line defined macros to support platformio config settings.
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NimBLEAdvertising::start
now returns a bool value to indicate success/failure. -
Some asserts were removed in
NimBLEAdvertising::start
and replaced with better return code handling and logging. -
If a host reset event occurs, scanning and advertising will now only be restarted if their previous duration was indefinite.
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NimBLERemoteCharacteristic::subscribe
andNimBLERemoteCharacteristic::registerForNotify
will now set the callback regardless of the existence of the CCCD and return true unless the descriptor write operation failed. -
Advertising tx power level is now sent in the advertisement packet instead of scan response.
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NimBLEScan
When the scan ends the scan stopped flag is now set before calling the scan complete callback (if used) this allows the starting of a new scan from the callback function.
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Sometimes
NimBLEClient::connect
would hang on the task block if no event arrived to unblock. A time limit has been added to timeout appropriately. -
When getting descriptors for a characteristic the end handle of the service was used as a proxy for the characteristic end handle. This would be rejected by some devices and has been changed to use the next characteristic handle as the end when possible.
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An exception could occur when deleting a client instance if a notification arrived while the attribute vectors were being deleted. A flag has been added to prevent this.
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An exception could occur after a host reset event when the host re-synced if the tasks that were stopped during the event did not finish processing. A yield has been added after re-syncing to allow tasks to finish before proceeding.
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Occasionally the controller would fail to send a disconnected event causing the client to indicate it is connected and would be unable to reconnect. A timer has been added to reset the host/controller if it expires.
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Occasionally the call to start scanning would get stuck in a loop on BLE_HS_EBUSY, this loop has been removed.
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16bit and 32bit UUID's in some cases were not discovered or compared correctly if the device advertised them as 16/32bit but resolved them to 128bits. Both are now checked.
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FreeRTOS
compile errors resolved in latest Arduino core and IDF v3.3. -
Multiple instances of
time()
called inside critical sections caused sporadic crashes, these have been moved out of critical regions. -
Advertisement type now correctly set when using non-connectable (advertiser only) mode.
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Advertising payload length correction, now accounts for appearance.
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(Arduino) Ensure controller mode is set to BLE Only.
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NimBLEAdvertising::start
Now takes 2 optional parameters, the first is the duration to advertise for (in seconds), the second is a callback that is invoked when advertising ends and takes a pointer to aNimBLEAdvertising
object (similar to theNimBLEScan::start
API). -
(Arduino) Maximum BLE connections can now be altered by only changing the value of
CONFIG_BT_NIMBLE_MAX_CONNECTIONS
innimconfig.h
. Any changes to the controller max connection settings insdkconfig.h
will now have no effect when using this library. -
(Arduino) Revert the previous change to fix the advertising start delay. Instead a replacement fix that routes all BLE controller commands from a task running on core 0 (same as the controller) has been implemented. This improves response times and reliability for all BLE functions.
- Empty
NimBLEAddress
constructor:NimBLEAddress()
produces an address of 00:00:00:00:00:00 type 0. - Documentation of the difference of NimBLEAddress::getNative vs the original bluedroid library.
- notify_callback typedef is now defined as std::function to enable the use of std::bind to call a class member function.
- Fix advertising start delay when first called.
First stable release.
All the original library functionality is complete and many extras added with full documentation.