[advocatee]

Hi,

I read that you cannot discover and advertise from the same device at once, but you can take turns, perhaps advertising for a random period of time and doing a discovery in between advertising.

Does anyone have tips on how to implement that? Timers? Anything?

- aDvo -

[stevecotton]

Just put an advert in the SDP database, leave it there until your app exits, and do occasional discovery.

The problem isn't that you can't advertise and discover. The problem is (roughly) that while you are making an outbound connection for the discovery, the phone will not accept an inbound connection from another device trying to read the SDP database.

[ThreeSixFiveOh]

Hi steve,

I wish to ask 2 questions based on what u said...

You said:
"while you are making an outbound connection for the discovery, the phone will not accept an inbound connection from another device trying to read the SDP database"

1) Does this mean that i do not even have to set the following to deny inbound connections, when doing a discovery?:

iSdpDatabase.UpdateAttributeL(iRecord, KSdpAttrIdServiceAvailability, state); //state is =0x00, deny inbound connections

What i mean is, does the phone automatically become deaf to other phones when it is speaking(discovery),
or do i have to explicitly update its service record availability to become not available as shown in the code above?

2) Suppose i'm advertising, and i wish to perform my periodic discovery,. Do i have to first do anything to the service record, or close the sdp database session, or anything? Or do i straightaway do a discovery leaving the SDP DB as it is, that is, still advertising?

Sorry for the long questions, just wanted to make things as clear as possible =)

Thanks steve