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Subject: Re: LE Advertising: Command Disallowed
To:     Devin Bayer <dev@doubly.so>, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
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From:   "Michael N. Moran" <mike@mnmoran.org>
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Date:   Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:04:07 -0500
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Hi Devin,

If I recall correctly, you get this if advertising is already enabled.


On 11/11/20 12:49 PM, Devin Bayer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to figure out why I'm getting "Command Disallowed" for the HCI
> commands "LE Set Advertise Enable" and "LE Set Advertising Parameters". I've
> been trying for a few days to get a GATT service running; first with the D-BUS
> API, which occasionally worked but was very unstable. Now I'm trying with HCI
> directly with the pybleno / bleno libraries.
>
> I have bluetoothd disabled and I have tried an `hciconfig reset` and reboot.
> Unsure what else I can do, I'm asking here.
>
> The errors are these:
>
>> HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 4      #14 [hci0] 3.406377
>       LE Set Advertise Enable (0x08|0x000a) ncmd 1
>         Status: Command Disallowed (0x0c)
>
>> HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 4      #16 [hci0] 3.407380
>       LE Set Advertising Parameters (0x08|0x0006) ncmd 1
>         Status: Command Disallowed (0x0c)


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