Hi Lukasz,

We are also trying FreeRTOS + Nimble on nrf52. Have you realized DFU OTA
via BLE with FreeRTOS? We are not sure if this is something doable.

Thanks,

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 4:19 PM Łukasz Rymanowski <
lukasz.rymanow...@codecoup.pl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> so indeed your logs show that after trying to read include services from
> GATT service, something bad happened. Controller was able to ACK 2
> following master packets then it stopped to send ACKs.
> Do you have a console available? If so, does it show anything interesting?
>
> For further debugging I suggest to look at BLE_MONITOR_RTT to grab hci logs
> (https://www.codecoup.pl/blog/support-for-btmon-in-mynewt/)
> With this we will know if response is still in the host or is in the
> controller.
>
> Then we could check some stats e.g. ble_ll_stats - maybe that could show us
> something interesting - but first let us see where it stuck.
>
> Best
> Łukasz
>
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 21:06, <j...@codingfield.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > It looks like the attachements were dropped somewhere... You can
> > download them on my seafile instance :
> > https://seafile.codingfield.com/d/64d53a6ca6b44ae6b5d7/
> >
> > It seems to fail during the discovery of the characteristics on the
> > device. From what I understand, it happens during the discovery of
> > Generic Access Profile and Generic Attributes Profile, which are handled
> > by nimble.
> > I may be wrong, I'm a beginner with BLE and nimble!
> > Maybe the captures will make more sens to you?
> >
> > Yeah, it's very strange that it works when the code is supposed to run
> > slower... It makes me think of a timing or memory issue, but I couldn't
> > find it...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > JF
> >
> > Le 14/06/2020 20:46, Łukasz Rymanowski a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the report, however looks like attachments are missing.
> > >
> > > First of all you need to understand what read fails i.e check handle
> > > and
> > > make sure that your application responds correctly.
> > > It is very suspicious that read works with -Og, but still I would focus
> > > on
> > > that failing read first.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Lukasz
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 20:25 <j...@codingfield.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I'm working on a firmware for the Pinetime, a smartwatch based on the
> > >> NRF52832. The code is written in C/C++ and uses FreeRTOS.
> > >> I've recently switched from the Nordic Softdevice to NimBLE as BLE
> > >> stack. I used the freertos port from the 'porting' folder of the
> > >> source
> > >> code of nimble.
> > >>
> > >> I did many test using my PC on Linux : it can connect and communicate
> > >> with the NRF52 without issue.
> > >> However, things are not that easy when I try to connect using Android
> > >> phone (I tried with a Huawei Psomething and my old Nexus5) : the
> > >> connection fails most of the time.
> > >>
> > >> I did a lot of debugging, logging, sniffing,.. and I still cannot
> > >> understand why it's not working as expected. Here are some of my
> > >> observations:
> > >>
> > >>   - When Android successfully connects, I receive the following GAP
> > >> events : BLE_GAP_EVENT_CONNECT and then BLE_GAP_EVENT_CONN_UPDATE 2
> > >> times. The first update sets the connection interval to 6, the second
> > >> one to 40.
> > >>   - When it fails, I receive only the BLE_GAP_EVENT_CONNECT event and
> > >> the
> > >> 1st BLE_GAP_EVENT_CONN_UPDATE.
> > >>   - Using the sniffer, I noticed that the last packet is a read
> > >> request
> > >> from the phone. It looks like the NRF52 never respond to this last
> > >> read.
> > >>   - It fails in the discovery steps (when the android phone discover
> > >> all
> > >> the services, characteristics and attributes) but not always at the
> > >> same
> > >> place.
> > >>   - I noticed that the tasks (ll task and host task are not in
> > >> deadlock
> > >> BUT it looks like the radio ISR (ble_phy_isr() in ble_phy.c) is not
> > >> called anymore.
> > >>   - When I build the very same code in DEBUG (-Og instead of -O3), it
> > >> works perfectly!
> > >>
> > >> You'll find in attachements 2 captures I did with Wireshark and the
> > >> NRF
> > >> Sniffer (running on a NRF52-DK), one failed and one successful attempt
> > >> to connect.
> > >>
> > >> I'm running out of idea to debug this further. Is there a
> > >> configuration
> > >> issue (there are so many parameters in syscfg.h)? What could I try?
> > >> Where should  I search ? Do you need more info to understand the
> > >> issue?
> > >>
> > >> Could you help me fix this issue?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> JF
> >
>


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