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@tom.gidden
Hi Alex,
Well, both HM-10 (and RFduino, incidentally) seem to be well set-up to do iBeacon functionality. However, if you actually want to use BLE for something more useful (such as a sensor, like a heart rate monitor, temperature reporting, etc.) then you need to be able to construct services, characteristics, and so forth.
I can't see any documented way of doing this with HM-10, at least consistently. The furthest the datasheet goes is about major and minor numbers, which are part of the iBeacon functionality.
...unless I'm missing something.
Put simply, with an HM-10, how would you configure it to advertise a sensor service and equip a smartphone app to connect and collect that sensor data? I can't see any way to do that with the HM-10, and it seems to be the primary use-case for BLE (not, as many think, the iBeacon capability)
Any insights you have would be appreciated.
(I'm still knee-deep in the NRF51822 SDK, which is a major chore: rather than being undocumented and possibly impossible like the HM-10, it's definitely possible, but even a basic sensor app is hundreds of lines of code for all the advertising, asynchronous connection/disconnection handling, service delivery, etc.)
Tom