Reading a characteristic value

- [Instructor] So now that we've successfully written data…to our characteristic on the peripheral,…we want to look at reading data from a characteristic.…When you read the data, you get it back as a data instance.…And in many cases, that data is going to need to be massaged…or processed some how to become meaningful data…that you can use in your app.…To read the data, you call the function read value…on the peripheral and pass in the characteristic…that you want to read the value for.…There's a call back called did update value…for characteristic that we'll implement…to get the value and process it however we need.…

We want to do this regularly so that we get updates…of our characteristic's value ongoing,…and we'll create a timer for that in our code.…So one thing that we want to look at is what kind of data…do we get back from our characteristic.…If we go back to the user's guide online,…we can scroll down to the optical sensor,…and we can see that the data that we get back needs to be…processed in this way to be able to…