Retrieving BLE Address

Connectivity BLE // NFC
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I teach an Internet of Things class at a local community college using the Particle Argon and Boron. The community is always so helpful with question, I hope this is an easy one.

I am incorporating some simple BLE UART communications between the Argon and a smartphone using Adafruit’s Bluefruit connect app. Given that I’ll have many students doing this at once, it would be helpful if I knew the BLE Address of each Argon. Is there an easy way to get the BLE address similar to how you can get Wifi MAC address using:

byte mac[6];
WiFi.macAddress(mac);
Serial.printf("WiFi MAC: %02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X \n ", mac[0], mac[1], mac[2], mac[3], mac[4], mac[5]);

Thanks
Brian

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Yes, BLE.address(). You can get it as a printable string using BLE.address().toString().c_str().

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Thank you. I will try it out tomorrow in the classroom. Appreciate the help.
Brian