reconnect mechanism not working

[MohamedEbrahimPos]

val peripheral = scope.peripheral(..) {
    autoConnectIf { true }
}
peripheral.connect()

[twyatt]

The code snippet you provided will initiate a connection, but your code doesn't handle reconnection.

autoConnectIf determines if autoConnect should be true for Android's connect call.

Per Kable's documentation, autoConnectIf configures the connect process, not reconnect.

[MohamedEbrahimPos]

Dose the kable's support reconnection when the connection between the devices failed after the initial connection happen ?
I want to listen if the connection failed Retry to connect .
How can I handel that with kable's?

[twyatt]

There are many ways to implement auto-reconnect. One possible approach is to monitor the Peripheral.state and connect when Disconnected state is seen, as demonstrated in the SensorTag sample app.

[MohamedEbrahimPos]

i want to thank you for your response it helps me a lot

[eygraber]

The answer explaining autoConnect that is linked in the README states:

If the connection was established through an auto connect, Android will automatically try to reconnect to the remote device when it gets disconnected until you manually call disconnect() or close()

If Kable is explicitly calling disconnect or close when the connection is lost, then the Kable documentation should call out that it will not try to reconnect if autoConnect is true.

[twyatt]

Good call out, @eygraber. TY!

I'll re-open issue as a reminder to update the documentation.
Additionally, it might make sense to rename the autoConnect to avoid confusion. Not sure what I would call it instead. 🤔