I would say that is expected. The BLE Radio is either transmitting or receiving, so when it transmits it will not receive at the same time. Also it would not make sense to report what is being transmitted as the beacon is always there, you know it's transmitting and for location you can't do anything with it.
Why would you want to see the beacon for the AP itself?
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Original Message:
Sent: May 02, 2023 06:17 PM
From: kan.mongwa@decurtis.com
Subject: AP cannot detect its own internal beacon?
Hi.
I am working with 505 and 515 APs. Internal radio is configured for beaconing and scanning. Beacons are configured with the same UUID and major but unique minors. Beaconing interval is 1000ms. Beaconing is working fine as I can detect the beacons using a different ibeacon scanning apps.
I have a Transport configured to send BLE telemetry to a websocket endpoint. That too works well as I am getting BLE telemetry from all APs.
However, I noticed that the telemetry from each AP never includes its own internal radio BLE advertisement data. It has data of the internal beacon of nearby APs plus any other ibeacon devices in the UUID filter as expected, but not its own.
I further confirmed this by checking the BLE table on each AP using the CLI (#show ap debug ble-table ap-name <ap-name> ibeacon). On each AP, it contains data of nearby beacons including other APs, but not of its own internal beacon.
Is this expected behavior and is there some way to change it so that each AP can also report on its own internal beacon?
Thanks.