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Kshitij
Kshitij

Reputation: 392

BluetoothGattCallBack function onCharacteristicRead called only once

I am trying to develop a BT application for connecting to a BLE device and read some data from it. For the device information part, I am looping through all the characteristics of the device, read the characteristic and collect returned data from the onCharacteristicRead method of BluetoothGattCallback.

The issue is that for the loop the onCharacteristicRead method is called only once. Please refer the code and the logcat below.

 @Override
        public void onCharacteristicRead(BluetoothGatt gatt, BluetoothGattCharacteristic characteristic, int status) {
            String value = characteristic.getStringValue(0);
            Log.e("TAG", "onCharacteristicRead: " + value + " UUID " + characteristic.getUuid().toString() );

        }

Characteristics are looped as 

private void getDeviceInformation() {
    BluetoothGattService deviceInfoService = bluetoothGatt.getService(UUIDs.DEVICE_INFORMATION_SERVICE);
    BluetoothGattCharacteristic deviceSerialNumber, deviceHardwareRevision, deviceSoftwareRevision;


    for (BluetoothGattCharacteristic characteristic : bluetoothGatt.getService(UUIDs.DEVICE_INFORMATION_SERVICE).getCharacteristics()) {
        bluetoothGatt.setCharacteristicNotification(characteristic, true);
        bluetoothGatt.readCharacteristic(characteristic);
    }
}

Logcat -

D/BluetoothGatt: setCharacteristicNotification() - uuid: 00002a25-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb enable: true
D/BluetoothGatt: setCharacteristicNotification() - uuid: 00002a27-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb enable: true
D/BluetoothGatt: setCharacteristicNotification() - uuid: 00002a28-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb enable: true
D/BluetoothGatt: setCharacteristicNotification() - uuid: 00002a23-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb enable: true
D/BluetoothGatt: setCharacteristicNotification() - uuid: 00002a50-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb enable: true
W/BluetoothGatt: onCharacteristicRead() - Device=F6:8B:C2:F3:EB:EE handle=14 Status=0
E/TAG: onCharacteristicRead: 86a691595263 UUID 00002a25-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3640

Answers (1)

HeyAlex
HeyAlex

Reputation: 1746

You should make all your operation synchronously. So after:

bluetoothGatt.readCharacteristic(characteristic);

you should wait callback 

public void onCharacteristicRead(BluetoothGatt gatt, BluetoothGattCharacteristic characteristic, int status)

So if you want to do something like you describe, make something like that:

List<BluetoothGattCharacteristic> characteristics = new ArrayList<>();
boolean isGettingDeviceInformation;
int count = 0;

@Override
public void onCharacteristicRead(BluetoothGatt gatt, BluetoothGattCharacteristic characteristic, int status) {
    String value = characteristic.getStringValue(0);
    Log.e("TAG", "onCharacteristicRead: " + value + " UUID " + characteristic.getUuid().toString() );
    if(isGettingDeviceInformation) {
        if(count < characteristics.size()) {
            count++;
            bluetoothGatt.setCharacteristicNotification(characteristics.get(count), true);
            bluetoothGatt.readCharacteristic(characteristics.get(count));
        } else {
            isGettingDeviceInformation = false;
        }
    }
}

private void getDeviceInformation() {
    BluetoothGattService deviceInfoService = bluetoothGatt.getService(UUIDs.DEVICE_INFORMATION_SERVICE);
    BluetoothGattCharacteristic deviceSerialNumber, deviceHardwareRevision, deviceSoftwareRevision;
    characteristics = bluetoothGatt.getService(UUIDs.DEVICE_INFORMATION_SERVICE).getCharacteristics();
    bluetoothGatt.setCharacteristicNotification(characteristics.get(count), true);
    bluetoothGatt.readCharacteristic(characteristics.get(count));
}

UPDATE

Don't forget about that in bluetooth your operations can gone, so you can stack in loop, for waiting callback. So to avoid it, u need to make timeout on operation, so if don't get callback, you just cancel current operation, and can go further.

Upvotes: 4

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