How to set a bluetoothLEnode to function as multi Bluetooth role?

I am trying to simulate network of bluetooth LE devices with connections between them. For this I need devices to function as both the peripheral and central role at the same time. How do I go about this?

The following line of code is what I use but is limited to setting it to a single role, I would want to set it to both the central and peripheral role.

peripheralNode = bluetoothLENode("peripheral");

Answer 1

[Manikanta Aditya]

Hi @Emiel le Clercq

I understand you are interested to know if you can set and use bluetoothLENode function for both the peripheral and central roles.

However, it seems that MATLAB’s bluetoothLENode function does not directly support setting a node to function as both a central and peripheral role simultaneously

Here is an example of how you might create two separate nodes:

centralNode = bluetoothLENode("central");
peripheralNode = bluetoothLENode("peripheral");

Refer to the follwoing documentation: Bluetooth LE node - MATLAB (mathworks.com)

I hope this helps.

[Emiel le Clercq]

Hey @Manikanta Aditya thanks for the response!

I had kind of already assumed the single role limitation was the case, would you know if there is a possible hacky/messy way multi role could be achieved?

I already have the communcations working between nodes that have single roles each, but with this I cant achieve the goal I need.

[Manikanta Aditya]

As per the documentation and codebase, I don't think that's possible to use multiple role at a time, as both centralNode and peripheralNode are two different objects, doing multirole isn't possible is what I think. Once try to check the documentation to get more info!