RSSI always at 0 during scanning

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19 August 2015 07:54 AM

Nicolas Newbie

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Hello,

I'm using a N550 with ANT version BAW4.01B00.
When i open a background scanning channel with extended message 0xC0. The measurement type is at 0x20 but the RSSI value is always at 0

scan channel parameters used:

{0x04, 0x42, CHANNEL_SCAN, 0x40, 0x00, 0x01}, // Assign channel: Receive Only Channel, Background Scanning Enable
{0x05, 0x51, CHANNEL_SCAN, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00}, // Set channel ID
{0x02, 0x63, CHANNEL_SCAN, 0xFF}, // Channel Low Priority Search Timeout: infinite
{0x02, 0x44, CHANNEL_SCAN, 0x00}, // Channel Search Timeout: disable
{0x02, 0x45, CHANNEL_SCAN, 0x39}, // Set Channel RF Frequency, 2457 MHz
{0x01, 0x4B, CHANNEL_SCAN}, // Open channel 

When i open a normal channel, the RSSI is correctly received.

Any idea where is the problem coming from ?

Thanks for your help.

24 August 2015 05:00 PM #1

Harrison Administrator

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Hi,

Do you still see the same issue on V5.00 of the SoftDevice?

25 August 2015 08:01 AM #2

Nicolas Newbie

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Hello,

I don't know which softdevice version i have, i still have the original firmware. Is there a command for knowing the softdevice version ?

12 January 2016 07:06 AM #3

Nicolas Newbie

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Hello,

I would be very grateful if someone can answer my question.

01 February 2016 09:56 AM #4

Harrison Administrator

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Hi Nicolas,

Did you use the lib config (0x6E) command to enable RSSI measurement?
To find your SoftDevice version, you may issue a request message (0x4D) for the ANT version message (0x3E), which will output a version string.

01 February 2016 10:16 AM #5

Nicolas Newbie

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Hello,

Yes, i use the command: 0x02, 0x6E, 0x00, 0xC0
The ANT version is: BAW4.01B00

01 February 2016 10:58 AM #6

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Could you post a log of your received message packets? For instance, I am using ANTware II to run a background scan on an N550 module and I am receiving the following packets:

Received BROADCAST_DATA_0x4E
:: 4e, 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-4B-C0-21-00-01-01-20-C5-B0
Received BROADCAST_DATA_0x4E
:: 4e, 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-58-C0-21-00-01-01-20-C4-B0
Received BROADCAST_DATA_0x4E
:: 4e, 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-65-C0-21-00-01-01-20-C4-B0
Received BROADCAST_DATA_0x4E
:: 4e, 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-72-C0-21-00-01-01-20-C5-B0
Received BROADCAST_DATA_0x4E
:: 4e, 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-7F-C0-21-00-01-01-20-C5-B0
Received BROADCAST_DATA_0x4E
:: 4e, 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-80-C0-21-00-01-01-20-C5-B0
Received BROADCAST_DATA_0x4E
:: 4e, 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-8C-C0-21-00-01-01-20-C5-B0
Received BROADCAST_DATA_0x4E
:: 4e, 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-8D-C0-21-00-01-01-20-C5-B0

In this case the RSSI is represented by the second last message byte, and is changing slightly between -59 and -60 dBm.

Or as received over the USB UART interface directly:
662.910 { 144706433} Rx - [A4][11][4E][00][00][00][00][00][00][00][00][D0][C0][21][00][01][01][20][C5][B0][9F]

04 February 2016 05:29 AM #7

Nicolas Newbie

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I have done more testing and it only happens when there is another channel open.
I have attached files with log of the two cases:
ok.txt: there is only 1 scan channel, the RSSI is correct
ko.txt: there is another open channel, the RSSI is always at 0

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ok.txt (File Size: 2KB - Downloads: 793)
ko.txt (File Size: 3KB - Downloads: 864)

04 March 2016 11:32 AM #8

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Hi,

Thank you for your patience. This is a bug in the firmware, we plan to fix it in a future maintenance release of the SoftDevice. In the meantime, you can fix this issue by opening the background scanning channel first, and not opening the slave channel beforehand.

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RSSI always at 0 during scanning

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