This program allows an operator to select a BLE state (scan or advertise in constant or periodic mode) to measure power consumption in that state. Running the program on two boards and selecting scan on one and advertise/periodic advertise on the other will result in a connection between the boards so that power can also be measured in the connect as master/connect as peripheral states.
There are implementations (configuration & compilation) for the following systems:
Input and output is via serial. The program can be commanded to enter either the advertise (a command) or scan (s command) state, which last for 60 seconds by default. If two boards are set to complementary states, a connection will be formed and maintained for a default length of 60 seconds. Instead of connecting, the boards can be synced via periodic advertising by toggling the periodic flag with the p command before using the s and a commands. By default, the scanning board will look for another device with the name Power Consumption; using the m command and inputting a hexadecimal MAC address (0a1b2c3d4e5f or 0a:1b:2c:3d:4e:5f format) will cause s to scan for the device with the given MAC instead. This can be reverted by using the m command again and pressing ENTER.