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You’ve got advertising, scanning, and a connection that moves data working. The next question is how the device should behave over time. Should it stay connected whenever it can, or connect only when there’s something to exchange?

There’s no default answer, and staying connected is rarely as free as it looks. Two devices that sleep to save power, drift in and out of...


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Security testing in BLE development has a way of getting pushed to the end of the dev/test cycle. There’s always something more immediately broken. Pairing gets wired up, it works in the room you’re developing in, and it ships. Then it fails in the field on a specific phone, at a specific point in the connection flow, or for a user you can’t reproduce the environment for.

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Connection interval is the primary power lever inside a BLE connection, but it’s only half of a two-parameter system. Tune it without understanding peripheral latency and you’ll either over-constrain latency to protect battery life or leave the biggest gains on the table. This article covers what the connection interval actually does to power consumption, where the tradeoff l...


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