{"id":927,"date":"2016-09-15T06:27:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T06:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2016-09-15T06:27:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T06:27:55","slug":"nrf-connect-now-has-macros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/nrf-connect-now-has-macros\/","title":{"rendered":"nRF Connect Now Has Macros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=no.nordicsemi.android.mcp\" target=\"_blank\">Nordic nRF Connect app<\/a> (formerly known as nRF Master Control Panel) allows you to manipulate beacons directly at the Bluetooth GATT Service\/Characteristic level. It works with all beacons, not just those containing Nordic SoCs. There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/nrf-connect\/id1054362403?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">version for iOS<\/a>. The app is particularly good at recognising known Bluetooth profiles and giving them useful human descriptions rather than leaving the Bluetooth Services as numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Android<\/strong> version of the app has recently been updated to support macros:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nrfconnectmacros.png\" alt=\"nrfconnectmacros\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nrfconnectmacros.png 576w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/nrfconnectmacros-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 85vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This means that if you are configuring lots of beacons, it&#8217;s now much less tedious, quicker and less error prone if you record and replay a macro setting all your desired Service\/Characteristic settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nordic nRF Connect app (formerly known as nRF Master Control Panel) allows you to manipulate beacons directly at the Bluetooth GATT Service\/Characteristic level. It works with all beacons, not just those containing Nordic SoCs. There&#8217;s also a version for iOS. The app is particularly good at recognising known Bluetooth profiles and giving them useful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/nrf-connect-now-has-macros\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;nRF Connect Now Has Macros&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}