Having Troubles with ESP32's and BLE

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So I seem to be having issues with my code, and I honestly can’t see why.

Here is my first attempt at making a fully working version of code: (These do work BTW)

Server: Server code Client: Client code

And here is the issue files:

Server: Server code Client: Client code

Now, I do get some-what of an output, which may help in aiding the solution, is the output I get from the client.

Device Found! Name: 'Light Pole Server' Advertising Service: '0' Service UUID: '<NULL>'

This shows that it does find that device, however, it cannot see the service.

I have tested this code with a mix of ESP32 (original), ESP32S3’s and ESP32S2’s, to no avail.

If anyone has any suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated, and if more information is needed, please ask!

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Hi Maddie,

That code is a bit complex for us to pick apart here on the forum (I feel like I’d need a whiteboard and a few hours), but we can definitely help with specific questions and general advice.

I’ve taken a look at the diff between the server files, and it looks like you added and changed quite a lot. Have you tried slowly adding in the functionality you need and testing as you go? Or at least testing the client-server stuff with dummy values first (i.e. it doesn’t have to reflect the whole project with remote and all)?

What I’d try next would be taking the “known good” code and modify slowly from there, checking that the service and UUID make it through each step of the way.

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Alright, I listened to your advice, and am pretty much starting again, and I have diagnosed it down to a few lines of code.

New server code

New client code

Now I reconfirmed that the code I did start with does work, and in fact it does. All I have changed with the new code, is add two more characteristics to the service, nothing else has been touched. here is what I get as an output from the client side:

Device Found! Name: '' Advertising Service: '0' Service UUID: '<NULL>'

Device Found! Name: 'ESP32' Advertising Service: '1' Service UUID: '4fafc201-1fb5-459e-8fcc-c5c9c331914b'

Attempting connection to device with valid service...
Successfully connected to service! attempting to fetch service...
Found service! attempting to find characteristic...
Found Characteristic! attempting to setup callback...
Guru Meditation Error: Core  0 panic'ed (Load access fault). Exception was unhandled.

Core  0 register dump:
MEPC    : 0x42003d98  RA      : 0x42000466  SP      : 0x3fc9e7a0  GP      : 0x3fc90200  
TP      : 0x3fc776cc  T0      : 0x4005890e  T1      : 0x0000000f  T2      : 0xffffffff  
S0/FP   : 0x00000000  S1      : 0x3fcaea40  A0      : 0x00000000  A1      : 0x3c0b0294  
A2      : 0x00000001  A3      : 0x00000000  A4      : 0x00000000  A5      : 0x00000000  
A6      : 0x00000007  A7      : 0x00000036  S2      : 0x3fc93000  S3      : 0x3fc93000  
S4      : 0x3fc93000  S5      : 0x3fc93000  S6      : 0x3fc92000  S7      : 0x3c0b0000  
S8      : 0x3c0b0000  S9      : 0x3c0b0000  S10     : 0x3c0b0000  S11     : 0x00000000  
T3      : 0x00000001  T4      : 0x00000000  T5      : 0x009e00a0  T6      : 0x00000000  
MSTATUS : 0x00001881  MTVEC   : 0x40380001  MCAUSE  : 0x00000005  MTVAL   : 0x00000028  
MHARTID : 0x00000000  

Stack memory: (A LOT of lines of memory traces, if you feel these are important, I will add them.)

ELF file SHA256: 1b4e303f76625cc8

Rebooting...
ESP-ROM:esp32c3-api1-20210207
Build:Feb  7 2021
rst:0x3 (RTC_SW_SYS_RST),boot:0x8 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
Saved PC:0x40048b82
SPIWP:0xee
mode:DIO, clock div:1
load:0x3fcd5820,len:0x458
load:0x403cc710,len:0x814
load:0x403ce710,len:0x2878
entry 0x403cc710

and then it ends.

that means, the issue with the code, is happening right here:

if (pRemoteCharacteristic) {
  Serial.println("Found Characteristic! attempting to setup callback...");
  pRemoteCharacteristic->registerForNotify(ledNotifyCallback);
  pRemoteCharacteristic->getDescriptor(BLEUUID((uint16_t)0x2902))->writeValue((uint8_t*)"\x01", 1);
  Serial.println("Set callback and found descriptor successfully! All Complete.");
}

Just a little note, I also checked both with the original code, and this modified code, if the data shows up correctly in NRFConnect, and it does.

Thanks for your help so far!

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Okay, did one more test to check something, and the faulty line is this:

pRemoteCharacteristic->getDescriptor(BLEUUID((uint16_t)0x2902))->writeValue((uint8_t*)"\x01", 1);

If I cross it out, it simply doesn’t seem to want to connect to the main board.

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It seems the issues have been solved. I will post later if I find the reason of what caused this issue.

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Hi Maddie,

Great to hear you solved it!

GPT is great for debugging and helping out (even if you just ask it to rubberduck the code with you)

Liam

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Yes, I have learnt that, and I did use it, but its only useful for an extent, and I always make sure I understand what its actually changing, so I know why an error may occur in the future, but I thought I would be smart, and try and re-write the entire server and client code, which did not work in the end.

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