Bluetooth Packet Encoding
This is the c code used to construct the packets on the Arduino:
/** ================================== */
/** BLUETOOTH DATA PACKETING FUNCTIONS */
/** ================================== */
/** The two functions in this section handle packeting the data and sending it over USART to the bluetooth module. The two functions are
* identically named so are called the in the same way, however the first is run if the value passed to it is a float and the second is
* run if the value passed into it is an integer (an override function). For all intents and purposes you can ignore this and simply call
* 'sendData(identifier, value);' using one of the defined identifiers and either a float or integer value to send informaion over BT.
*
* identifier: see definitions at start of code
* value: the value to send (typically some caluclated value from a sensor)
*/
void sendData(char identifier, float value)
{
if (!DEBUG_MODE) // Only runs if debug mode is LOW (0)
{
byte dataByte1;
byte dataByte2;
if (value == 0)
{
// It is impossible to send null bytes over Serial connection
// so instead we define zero as 0xFF or 11111111 i.e. 255
dataByte1 = 0xFF;
dataByte2 = 0xFF;
}
else if (value <= 127)
{
// Values under 128 are sent as a float
// i.e. value = dataByte1 + dataByte2 / 100
int integer;
int decimal;
float tempDecimal;
integer = (int) value;
tempDecimal = (value - (float) integer) * 100;
decimal = (int) tempDecimal;
dataByte1 = (byte) integer;
dataByte2 = (byte) decimal;
if (decimal == 0)
{
dataByte2 = 0xFF;
}
if (integer == 0)
{
dataByte1 = 0xFF;
}
}
else
{
// Values above 127 are sent as integer
// i.e. value = dataByte1 * 100 + dataByte2
int tens;
int hundreds;
hundreds = (int)(value / 100);
tens = value - hundreds * 100;
dataByte1 = (byte)hundreds;
//dataByte1 = dataByte1 || 0x10000000; //flag for integer send value
dataByte1 += 128;
dataByte2 = (byte) tens;
if (tens == 0)
{
dataByte2 = 0xFF;
}
if (hundreds == 0)
{
dataByte1 = 0xFF;
}
}
// Send the data in the format { [id] [1] [2] }
Serial.write(123);
Serial.write(identifier);
Serial.write(dataByte1);
Serial.write(dataByte2);
Serial.write(125);
}
}
/** override for integer values*/
void sendData(char identifier, int value)
{
if (!DEBUG_MODE)
{
byte dataByte1;
byte dataByte2;
if (value == 0)
{
dataByte1 = 0xFF;
dataByte2 = 0xFF;
}
else if (value <= 127)
{
dataByte1 = (byte)value;
dataByte2 = 0xFF; //we know there's no decimal component as an int was passed in
}
else
{
int tens;
int hundreds;
hundreds = (int)(value / 100);
tens = value - hundreds * 100;
dataByte1 = (byte)hundreds;
dataByte1 += 128; //sets MSB High to indicate Integer value
dataByte2 = (byte) tens;
if (tens == 0)
{
dataByte2 = 0xFF;
}
if (hundreds == 0)
{
dataByte1 = 0xFF;
}
}
Serial.write(123);
Serial.write(identifier);
Serial.write(dataByte1);
Serial.write(dataByte2);
Serial.write(125);
}
}
If you adapt it to any other languages we would be keen to show the code here!
Last modified 4yr ago