BLE Adv in background mode

[stich86]

Hi all,

First happy Xmas to everyone!

I'm trying to using the companion app on an iPhone 13 Pro Max with iOS 15.1. When the aap is on foreground the BLE adv are consistent, but when put in background it stops. I've grant all the permission to the app, also enable the Auto Toggle doesn't make any difference.

Is it normal?

Thanks in advance!

[bjw-s]

Wanted to chime in and mention that I am seeing the same behavior on my iPhone 13 running the latest versions of iOS and the companion app.

[mKeRix]

First off, I'd recommend to keep the auto-toggle off as there are some issues with that feature. I aimed to rewrite it at some point, but didn't get around to it yet for various reasons. As long as you don't reboot the phone the advertisements should keep on running in the background.

One important caveat when using the auto-toggle currently is the location permission setting (as displayed for room-assistant in the Settings app) - this should be set to "Always" and "exact location". The app won't make use of any GPS data, this permission is just required to receive the BLE packets that room-assistant instances send out for this purpose. As said above though, I'd recommend to just keep this disabled.