Using BLE with 1.3. How to set the local name of the device to show in the advertising packet

[ScruffR]

appendLocalName() is not that different to appendServiceUUID() which Rick has mentioned in his post

@rickkas7

If you are only using BLE UART you can call:

bleSerial.advertise();

If you are advertising multiple services, instead call bleSerial.getServiceUuid() to get the UART serial UUID and add it with your own services:

BleAdvertisingData data;
data.appendServiceUUID(bleSerial.getServiceUuid());
// append your own service UUIDs here
BLE.advertise(&data);

With appendLocalName() you are not adding another service but the name.
However, you need to bundle the BLE UART UUID and the name into a "shared" set of advertising data and then advertise that bundle the standard BLE.advertise() way.

That's where the curiosity to understand how it works beats just being conent with prefab solutions