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Receive buffer full of all data

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, node.js
Domain
embedded-iot

Research direction

Start by tracing the Bluetooth client startup path and how the serial receive buffer is handled when the application is not reading. Confirm whether startup can invoke a flush, and consider the issue done when stale buffered data no longer accumulates after initialization.

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Description

Hello! thank you for sharing this, it is great. i noticed that if an application is not reading from the bt client the serial receive buffer accumulates a ton of data. is there a way to invoke a flush on startup?

thank you.

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C++
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