[cvaldess]

begin() creates _led_blink_th at its very end, after some twenty ways of returning false. BLEAdvertising::start() calls setConnLedInterval() unconditionally, so calling it after a failed begin() queues commands for a NULL timer. configASSERT is compiled out in release builds, and the timer task then faults in uxListRemove() on address 4, long after the caller has returned and with nothing on its stack to say who sent the command.

Meshtastic gets there on its own: its setup() logs the failed begin() and carries on, and the next PowerFSM transition that re-enables BLE resets the node.

setConnLedInterval(), _startConnLed() and _stopConnLed() now skip the timer if it doesn't exist. Adafruit's Bluefruit52Lib has the same pattern; I have only read that one.

Testing

nRF54LM20-DK, a local line based on v0.5.1 with these same functions, Meshtastic 2.8.3, with begin() made to fail by a temporary change that starves the TRNG. The firmware side was left unchanged.

• Without this change, opening the serial API hard-faults every time: CFSR 0x8200 (precise bus fault), R0 4 on entry to uxListRemove() from prvTimerTask. DWT comparators show resumeAdvertising() and setConnLedInterval() ran, and _stopConnLed() did not.
• With it, setConnLedInterval() runs and returns, there is no fault and the serial API works.

nRF54L15-DK, Meshtastic 2.8.3 on platform v0.5.0, with this change and #14: begin() succeeds and BLE advertises, so the normal path still reaches the timer. It ran for 3 h 24 min with no reset or fault, with a phone connected for over two hours.

Not tested: begin() failing on an nRF54L15, since the forced failure was only run on the nRF54LM20-DK.

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Walkthrough

Connection LED timer operations now check for an available timer before using it. setConnLedInterval returns when the timer is unavailable. The start and stop functions also guard their timer operations.

Changes: Connection LED timer guards

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Guard connection LED timer operations libraries/Bluefruit54Lib/src/bluefruit.cpp	setConnLedInterval returns if _led_blink_th is null. _startConnLed starts the timer only when connection LED control is enabled and the timer exists. _stopConnLed stops the timer only when it exists.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• meshtastic/nRF54_Arduino#6: Its TRNG lifecycle change relates to the begin() failure path described for the connection LED timer guards.

Suggested reviewers: caveman99

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to f12f1

The change prevents faults when initialization fails, with no repository-backed regression identified in the normal advertising or scanning flows.

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