Library is broken out of the box with latest Arduino with ESP32 core 3.3.7

[bigman73]

The error happens because BLEDevice::init (in the ESP32 core 3.3.7) now takes an Arduino String, while BleKeyboard stores deviceName as std::string

Can you please release a new version?

I hate to fork this repo, but it seems dead - nothing since 2022.

[sakul-the-one]

So, since some people will come here, let me share what I found:

The latest supported version of this Repo are:

• Nimble 1.4.3
• ESP32 core 2.0.17

In case someone needs it for the newest version of both Nimble and ESP32 core, I have forked this project and updated it. I will try to also fix all the others Issues.

[bigman73]

Thanks

[Micro-Cloudz]

I'm pretty sure you just need to change two of the lines in the cpp file to support the newest core. That worked for me. It's some sort of string parsing issue. Being a beginner using ChatGPT, I forgot what line it was and why you had to change it.

[sakul-the-one]

Yes. For Espressif 3.0.0 and above, you need to use the String Libary from Arduino and not the standard string library. They also renamed some other functions, but that’s it.

For newest Nimble version, you also had to change some functions name and add another parameter to one or two functions if I’m not wrong and use std::String instead of Arduino String