Espruino Hub installed OK, but Bangle connect fails often

Posted on Fri 10th, July 2020

• #1

gerardwr

Hi,

I installed Espruino Hub on my RPi, and loaded the example code (added a setInterval) from https://www.espruino.com/BLE+HTTP+Proxy on my Bangle.

response="";

setInterval(function () {

print("connecting");
  
NRF.requestDevice({ filters: [{ services: ['1823'] }] }).then(function(device) {
  require("ble_http").httpRequest(device, "pur3.co.uk/hello.txt", function(d) {
    response=JSON.stringify(d);
    print(response);
  });
});

}, 10000);

Sometimes the Bangle gets the expected response from the Hub, sometimes I get error Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: Disconnected.

 ____                 _
|  __|___ ___ ___ _ _|_|___ ___
|  __|_ -| . |  _| | | |   | . |
|____|___|  _|_| |___|_|_|_|___|
         |_| espruino.com
 2v06 (c) 2019 G.Williams
>
WARNING: Softdevice error BLE error 0x11 (BUSY) (bluetooth.c:818)
connecting
Connected
Got service
Got characteristic
Set URI
Got characteristic
Written GET
Disconnected
{"buffer":[72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33,10],"byteOffset":0,"byteLength":13}
connecting
Connected
Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: Disconnected
connecting
Connected
Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: Disconnected
connecting
Connected
Got service
Got characteristic
Set URI
Got characteristic
Written GET
Disconnected
{"buffer":[72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33,10],"byteOffset":0,"byteLength":13}
connecting
Connected
Got service
Got characteristic
Set URI
Got characteristic
Written GET
Disconnected
{"buffer":[72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33,10],"byteOffset":0,"byteLength":13}
connecting
Connected
Got service
WARNING: Softdevice error BLE error 0x11 (BUSY) (bluetooth.c:818)
Got characteristic
Set URI
Got characteristic
Written GET
Disconnected
{"buffer":[72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33,10],"byteOffset":0,"byteLength":13}
connecting
Connected
Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: Disconnected
WARNING: Softdevice error BLE error 0x11 (BUSY) (bluetooth.c:818)

I got similar errors when I used my own code in the Bangle and a self-coded BLE server on my Esp32 (ref http://forum.espruino.com/conversations/349804/#comment15369436);

Could this be caused be an "issue" in the BLE handling of Espruino, or is it unreliability in the BLE protocol?

• #2

Gordon
What's the unexpected response you're getting?
```
// This is a DataView, but:
{"buffer":[72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33,10],"byteOffset":0,"byteLength":13}
// Converting it to a String gives:
var dv  = {"buffer":[72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33,10],"byteOffset":0,"byteLength":13};
print(E.toString(dv.buffer))
// Hello World!
```
Could the Softdevice error BLE error 0x11 (BUSY) error be because you might have been trying to connect when a device was already in the process of connecting? That does seem a bit strange.

But in general you would expect the connection to fail sometimes, especially as you'll be connected to Bangle.js via Bluetooth already so it's trying to juggle connecting, but also doing communications with the host PC at the maximum datarate it can handle.

Also Bangle.js's bluetooth range isn't actually that great, so I guess that could cause you issues as well.

I'd be interested to know whether it's actually any more reliable when you're not connected by PC, or if you run NRF.setConnectionInterval(100) to force bangle.js to use a lower-datarate connection to the PC (the default is NRF.setConnectionInterval(7.5))
• #3

gerardwr
The contents of "buffer" was expected, so apologies that I have mislead you with my post.

When tested:
- the Bangle was connected to the WebIde to monitor the response from the EspruinoHub, I understand that might require "juggling" when connecting to the Hub as well.
- No other devices were connecting to the HUB.
- distance between Raspberry/Hub and Bangle was 30 cm.
- based on previous experience I was not surprised about the scarce connection errors, was expecting them. Will do some testing withe the connectionInterval later.
The error that bugs me the most is Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: Disconnected.

Because I had this error many times too when I coded my own BLE-UART-client on Bangle i.c.w. my own coded BLE-peripheral-server on an ESP32 (ref. in my post above). Thought it was due to my inexperience with Espruino and BLE.

Now I'm using your code on Bangle and on Raspberry the same error appears, that gives me a little more confidence in my own coding skills ;-)
Thought that reporting it here would give you some inspiration on the cause of this error.

• #4

gerardwr

Ok, so I added setConnectionInterval in the code, but I do not see a major difference.

response="";
NRF.setConnectionInterval(100);

setInterval(function () {
print("connecting");
  
  
NRF.requestDevice({ filters: [{ services: ['1823'] }] }).then(function(device) {
  require("ble_http").httpRequest(device, "pur3.co.uk/hello.txt", function(d) {
    response=JSON.stringify(d);
    print(response);
  });
});
}, 10000);

Selection from output

connecting
Connected
Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: Disconnected
WARNING: Softdevice error BLE error 0x11 (BUSY) (bluetooth.c:818)
connecting
Connected
Got service
Got characteristic
Set URI
Got characteristic
Written GET
Disconnected
{"buffer":[72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33,10],"byteOffset":0,"byteLength":13}
connecting
Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: No device found matching filters
connecting
Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: No device found matching filters
connecting
Connected
Got service
Got characteristic
Set URI
Got characteristic
Written GET
Disconnected
{"buffer":[72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33,10],"byteOffset":0,"byteLength":13}
connecting
Connected
Got service
Got characteristic
Set URI
Got characteristic
Written GET
Disconnected
{"buffer":[72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33,10],"byteOffset":0,"byteLength":13}
connecting
Connected
Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: Disconnected
WARNING: Softdevice error BLE error 0x11 (BUSY) (bluetooth.c:818)
connecting
Connected
Got service
Got characteristic
Set URI
Got characteristic
Written GET
Disconnected
{"buffer":[72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33,10],"byteOffset":0,"byteLength":13}
connecting
Connected
Got service
Got characteristic
Set URI
Got characteristic
Written GET
Disconnected
{"buffer":[72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33,10],"byteOffset":0,"byteLength":13}
connecting
Connected
Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: Disconnected
connecting
Connected
Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: Disconnected
connecting
Connected
Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: Disconnec

The dreaded "Unhandled promise rejection ..." is still prominently present, with a scarce "BLE busy..".

• #5

Gordon

Uncaught Error: Unhandled promise rejection: Disconnected

Yes, what that means is the Bluetooth link got terminated while Espruino was waiting for something else to finish (getting characteristics/etc).

The disconnect is coming from a pretty low level in the Bluetooth stack, so I'm pretty confident it's not some bug in Espruino itself that causes the disconnect. I guess it's possible some setting could be tweaked to make the connection more error tolerant, but I'm afraid I am yet to find anything that it seems would help.
• #6

gerardwr

Ok, thanks. Now I know at least that I did not cause the error in my own code.

My knowledge about BLE is rather scarce, so I'm afraid that I can't help you there.

But I'm good at testing, so if you need my help at some point ........

• #7

gerardwr

As an intermezzo I tried the Bangle.js App Loader from https://github.com/espruino/BangleApps.

Wanted to use it as a "simple" file uploader, but so far I can see the current code does not support that.

As an experiment I copied the cmdInstallApp function, slashed it, and created:

function cmdUploadFile(fileName, deviceAddress) {
    bangleSend(fileName, deviceAddress).then(() => process.exit(0));
}

When I executed it I got the dreaded 'Unhandled Prmise Rejection`, there's no escaping it ;-)

iMac19-9:bin gerard$ node apploadergwr.js upload heartOnScreen.js f3-2c-dc-06-01-95
Initialising Notifications
<snip>
UART: Discovering...
UART: Found device:  f3-2c-dc-06-01-95 Bangle.js 0195
UART: Connecting to f3-2c-dc-06-01-95
UART: BT> Connecting
UART: BT> Connected
UART: Disconnected
(node:79575) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Disconnected but not complete
(node:79575) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:79575) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Not sure if this error message is interesting for you, but here it is.

• #8

Gordon

Hmm - so those Promise rejections are coming from the PC, not the Bangle :)

If it happens all the time I'd guess maybe it's something in the code you're uploading that causes the Bangle to drop the connection?
• #9

gerardwr in reply to @Gordon

Yes, in this case it seems it's coming from node coming from the Espruino Hub on Arduino.

But it's not PC-only, as my selfcoded BLE-peripheral on an ESP32 has the unhandled promise.... too :-(

And the Bangle code from post #4 has no "code" at all, it's just a httprequest, so thta's not it either.

BTW Espruino code on a bare NRF52832 (version 1V97) i.c.w. the Espruino Hub also has the same error.

Beats me!
• #10

user125378

I know this is an old thread, but it's almost the only thing I can find on the subject. I'm facing the same problem, any way to catch the unhandled promise rejection? - Just so I can error correct myself.
• #11

Gordon
So you're using the ble_http module and getting an unhandled promise rejection on the Bangle?

You should just be able to do:
```
require("ble_http").httpRequest(device, "pur3.co.uk/hello.txt", function(d) {
    response=JSON.stringify(d);
    print(response);
  }).catch(function(err) {
 // error here
});
```
But if that fails, there is also the uncaughtException event, but I'd advise against using that unless there is no other option: http://www.espruino.com/Reference#l_process_uncaughtException

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Espruino Hub installed OK, but Bangle connect fails often

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