I'm getting data from a promise that returns a string:

const connectedDevice = async () => {
   await BleClient.getConnectedDevices(optionalServices)
   .then(
      value => { return value[0].deviceId ) };
   )
   .catch(err => { console.log(err) });
}

and I've been calling the function connectedDevice() which reuslts in the string raturned by the promise being output to the console as expected.

However, if I try to use the promise string outside of the function itself, I was getting the promise itself being returned rather than the result of the promise. So, I modified my call to the function by adding await, like so:

const conn = await connectedDevice();

However conn is now just 'undefined' and I'm unsure of what I'm doing wrong.

How do I get the actual value of value[0].deviceId returned so that I can use the promise returned value outside of the connectedDevice() function?