.. _bluetooth-hci-pwr-ctrl-sample:

Bluetooth: HCI Power Control
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Overview
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This sample application demonstrates the dynamic Tx power control over the LL
of the BLE controller via Zephyr HCI VS commands. The application implements a
peripheral advertising with varying Tx power. The initial advertiser TX power
for the first 5s of the application is the Kconfig set default TX power. Then,
the TX power variation of the advertiser is a repeatedly descending staircase
pattern ranging from -4 dB to -30 dB where the Tx power levels decrease every
5s.

Upon sucessful connection, the connection RSSI strength is being monitored and
the Tx power of the peripheral device is modulated per connection accordingly
such that energy is being saved depending on how powerful the RSSI of the
connection is. The peripheral implements a simple GATT profile exposing the
HR service notifying connected centrals about a dummy HR each 2s.

Requirements
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* BlueZ running on the host, or
* A board with BLE support
* A central device & monitor (e.g. nRF Connect) to check the RSSI values
  obtained from the peripheral.

Building and Running
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This sample can be found under :zephyr_file:`samples/bluetooth/hci_pwr_ctrl`
in the Zephyr tree.

See :ref:`bluetooth samples section <bluetooth-samples>` for details.