BLE GATT/GAP Server in bluez5 not working as expected
asked 2018-05-09 17:08:50 +0300
While writing an app that does BLE GATT to a watch, i found that I get disconnected routinely every 15 minutes. I logged all the traffic from an android device, and found that every 120 seconds, the watch does the following command: Read By Type Request, Device Name, Handles: 0x0001..0xffff
On android, this returns the device name as expected. On sailfish, this returns 'Request not supported' as per the following btmon log:
ACL Data RX: Handle 6 flags 0x02 dlen 11 #1086 [hci0] 820.764748 ATT: Read By Type Request (0x08) len 6 Handle range: 0x0001-0xffff Attribute type: Device Name (0x2a00) < ACL Data TX: Handle 6 flags 0x00 dlen 9 #1087 [hci0] 820.765724 ATT: Error Response (0x01) len 4 Read By Type Request (0x08) Handle: 0x0000 Error: Request Not Supported (0x06)
Bluez devs believe this works fine upstream, and tested it, so put the blame on the mer build.
Are there any patches that would break this? Any config needed to enable this?
Next step for me is to write a quite desktop app and see what bluez on my deskop returns.
Tested on laptop, and it does indeed return the device name
pigg ( 2018-05-09 20:02:31 +0300 )editFor info, i tried building bluez5 from upstream git, with no patches, and the behaviour was the same. Could this be kernel related if its not in bluetoothd? ( i doubt it, but struggling now!)
pigg ( 2018-05-10 08:38:24 +0300 )editAfter an extensive debugging session, I found that the GATT db IS created when i click on the watch from the Sailfish BT settings GUI. This causes all the correct code to be executed in bluetoothd to create the GATT/GAP db and services.
The problem seems to be that none of that code is executed when my Qt all creates the connection.
Im open to suggestions, the debugging continues!
pigg ( 2018-05-12 11:04:45 +0300 )editPerhaps https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-46819 is relevant.
I think, if the dbus api was used, then the gatt server would be created, but because bluetooth in qt 5.6 uses the l2cap api (afaict) it doesnt create the gatt server. Cant decide if it is a bluez bug, or a qt bug!
pigg ( 2018-05-12 19:22:02 +0300 )editQtconnectivity in 5.11 will fix all this. Salfish will likely switch to 5.9 in 3.0. according to the bug report, connectivity from .11 can be built for 5.9 with some minor changes changes, perhaps Jolla could consider this?
pigg ( 2018-05-14 12:40:31 +0300 )edit