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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
If you create a device that has multiple beacons - for example both iBeacon and Eddystone - the nRF Connect tool for Android just shows the most recent beacon received. If they are being transmitted at the same interval then the too just flips between them, always showing the most recent.
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be nice if the tool recognized that for a single MAC address it was receiving multiple beacons. It could show them in a hierarchy (like a tree) or it could just show them as two separate entries in the list view.
Describe alternatives you've considered
The main way around this for now is to click on the beacon in the scan results and then look at the log (beneath the graph) by clicking MORE. This lets you see what's going on and is helpful for debugging. I don't think that log is meant to be used that way, though, and with rapid beacons that list gets pretty long quickly, so it's not ideal.
Additional context
I realize this may be a fairly significant change in that the listview that shows scan results is likely using the MAC address as the primary key. I also understand it may be challenging to figure out that two different beacons are being transmitted nearly-simultaneously and are therefore really part of a set of related advertisements. The easiest way to implement this might be to just have the listview key off of the mac AND beacon type as best it can. This probably would only work for known beacon types though, which would be a bit of a problem for me as my end goal is a custom beacon format. I'm not sure of the solution here.