Advertising example not working on Mac OS X

Posted on Fri 22nd, February 2019

• #1

jjs357

Following the advice here:https://www.espruino.com/BLE%20Advertising

I deploy the logic to the puck.

I disconnect.

I create the file advertising_nodejs.js file and run it with node.

The Starting scan... and Scanning started... messages appear in the node terminal.

I click the puck button.

Nothing is displayed -- no advertisement data appears as expected.

Running on MacBook Pro with the latest Mojave release installed.

Is this a supported configuration?

Jim
• #2

jjs357

Looks like noble for node.js is broken for Mac OS Mojave. There are open issues at the GitHub project. But there is another project called noble-mac that can be used as a drop-in replacement for noble.

See https://github.com/Timeular/noble-mac

Using this, I was able to get the advertising sample code to work for the puck and the Mac running Mojave.
• #3

Gordon

Thanks for this - I'll add a note on that to the page.

We're talking about this issue on Noble? https://github.com/noble/noble/issues/834
• #4

jjs357 in reply to @Gordon

Yes, that's the issue. I am running Mojave and discovering peripherals was not working with noble but it does seem to work with noble-mac.

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